I've seen very little coverage that really uses the term exponential in a way that suggests those reporting know the implications of that. I've seen one plot wi

I've seen very little coverage that really uses the term exponential in a way that suggests those reporting know the implications of that. I've seen one plot with a logarithmic y-axis, and that was in the Guardian some time ago. From it, it appeared a crude heuristic could be drawn that from the point that lockdown is implemented, the cumulative deaths appear to grow between two and three orders of magnitude. I've been grabbing the data put out by Johns Hopkins [0] for the last few days to update some plots in a very hacky Jupyter notebook. Crucially, the plots are normalized to (estimated) populations and the y-scale is logarithmic. I've put them on github in case anyone else is interested [1]. [0] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 [1] https://github.com/dpwm/covid19-analysis/blob/master/Coronavirus%20Deaths.ipynb https://github.com/dpwm/covid19-analysis/blob/master/Coronav... edit: Clarified that though exponential growth is widely used, the implications of that are not followed up. It's past my bedtime!