{"id":8250,"date":"2020-04-17T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2020-08-10T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T02:37:37","slug":"how-are-we-doing-with-this-whole-flatten-the-curve-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/how-are-we-doing-with-this-whole-flatten-the-curve-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"How are we Doing with this Whole &#8220;Flatten the Curve&#8221; Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we flattening the curve?<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=54XLXg4fYsc\">Minute Physics &#8220;How To Tell If We&#8217;re Beating COVID-19&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"https:\/\/aatishb.com\/covidtrends\/\">look at this live chart<\/a><br \/>\nIn brief, when a line is moving diagonally, the virus is growing exponentially (ie. unchecked growth!). When a line starts descending, the virus&#8217; growth is slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>On 4-17-20, this graphical mathematical analysis says, essentially, &#8220;Maybe the US has started to flatten the curve as of 4-11-20&#8221;. Of course, in order to &#8220;keep the curve flat&#8221; we have to all stay home&#8230; ummm forever. Hmmm.. hmmm&#8230;. And what state is doing the best? Well, according to the state chart on the same site, all the states are doing fairly similarly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-600x314.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-600x314.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-200x105.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-1536x803.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/us.png 1911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-600x316.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-600x316.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-200x105.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-1536x809.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/world.png 1907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we flattening the curve? Watch this video, Minute Physics &#8220;How To Tell If We&#8217;re Beating COVID-19&#8221; and look at this live chart In brief, when a line is moving diagonally, the virus is growing exponentially (ie. unchecked growth!). When a line starts descending, the virus&#8217; growth is slowing down. On 4-17-20, this graphical mathematical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}