Coronavirus Pandemic Math For The U.S. And Some Of The States.

I’m not an epidemiologists (former research biochemist and high school chemistry teacher), but I was looking at the graphs and doing some of the math for the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and some specific states. The graph below is based upon conditions NOW:

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I’m sorry it came out small, but the U.S. is on a trajectory of a doubling time for coronavirus cases of between every 2 to 3 days. I got this graph from the Financial Times. You should be able to click on the link to see it for yourself.

If the data is correct, the growth in coronavirus cases increases exponentially. This means that you can use an exponential equation to calculate the number of total coronavirus cases at a future time if you know the growth rate and have an initial number of cases.

NOTE: I tried the trick that one of my commenters suggested to fix that unreadable graph. I couldn’t do it (not sure why), so I have place it in the the title image space.

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If you take the very current number of coronavirus cases from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center as a= 92,932. Let’s assume that the the coronavirus growth rate is a doubling for every three days (time interval is three days and the r = 1 for 100% growth in that time interval). Plugging in those values, in three weeks (7 time intervals) the U.S. will have 11,896,121 total coronavirus cases.

I picked the three week number (7 time intervals) because I Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that they will not hit peak infections for another three weeks. This is just for NY. Keep that in mind.

If the death rate is 1%, that means approximately 112,000 deaths due to coronavirus in the U.S. by the end of the three weeks.

All of the above depends upon conditions on the ground. In other words, is there a real shutdown nationwide? Or will we continue this haphazard and partial state shutdowns?

And what if you do nothing or like Mississippi embrace the spread of the coronavirus? Let’s do some math there.