The significance, of course, is the exponential growth pattern. Just eyeballing it right now, it looks like by the end of November, given the current trend, Ebola cases should be pushing 14.5, or about 20000 cases. I don't see the 1 million plus by Jan the CDC is supposed to have predicted, but then, this isn't a terribly sophisticated model. My own prediction, again, just by eyeballing this chart, is about 100,000 cases (16.5).
When I get some time, I'll actually attempt a linear fit and use that to project.
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