> The rate of growth at a given day is the number of new cases on this day, as a percentage of the number of cases from the previous day. I haven't read the wh

> The rate of growth at a given day is the number of new cases on this day, as a percentage of the number of cases from the previous day. I haven't read the whole thing, but here he's defining "rate of growth" as the number of new cases. If there are 0 new cases each day, then eventually the number of total cases goes to zero.