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måndag 9 mars 2020

COVID19: what is the growth rate?

Answer: the growth rate is about 1.3 per day for Europe and US. This means a doubling of the number of cases every 2-3 days. Slower for Japan and Singapore. South Korea also shows signs of slower growth. More in depth about the method below the graphs.
















Method

data: john hopkins via kaggle as of 2020-03-07

Cases are reported daily. 
The model applied is least squares on the logarithm of number of cases. The code:

The model is applied from the when there is at least 70 reported cases. 

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