This was my initial reaction, but it seems that he came to this conclusion after analyzing the numbers in other countries as well. > He analyzed 78 countries w

This was my initial reaction, but it seems that he came to this conclusion after analyzing the numbers in other countries as well. > He analyzed 78 countries with more than 50 reported cases of COVID-19 every day and sees “signs of recovery.” He’s not looking at cumulative cases, but the number of new cases every day — and the percentage growth in that number from one day to the next. > Levitt acknowledges that his figures are messy, and that the official case counts in many areas are too low because testing is spotty. But even with incomplete data, “a consistent decline means there’s some factor at work that is not just noise in the numbers,” he said.