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That's a graph of growth rate again, showing similar data to the article. That roughly flat growth rate means linear increase in total deaths, day by day. To
by mkl 7y ago
That's a graph of growth rate again, showing similar data to the article. That roughly flat growth rate means linear increase in total deaths, day by day. To be flattening that total curve, the growth rate needs to keep decreasing.
- tomohawk 7y agoIt is not a graph of growth rate. It is a graph of death rate, and it shows the death rate on a day-to-day basis is pretty much constant for a while. If we have pretty much the same deaths per 100000 from one day to the next, where is the growth?
- mkl 7y agoIt is a graph of the rate of change of the total number of deaths, in units deaths/day. I.e., the growth rate of the death count. The total number of deaths is approximately the area under the curve, so if the curve stays constant as time goes on, the total area (number of deaths) increases linearly.
- madengr 7y agoWell I take “growth” to be a “rate” (the velocity). So a “growth rate” would be acceleration. That death curve is now flat for the last two samples, implying the rate is zero. The graph should be labeled deaths/million/day, which means the acceleration is zero and the velocity is constant. Sorry, just drives me bonkers when the media tosses about words such as “the economy grew at a rate of ....”. I suppose English is more confusing with “Billy grew 10 cm” (implied over a year), compared with “Billy is growing 10 cm/year”.