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Exponential growth and epidemics
3Blue1Brown
A short 3Blue1Brown primer on exponential and logistic growth, using early COVID-19 case data to show how epidemics grow and eventually level off. It explains why small changes in growth rate make enormous differences in outcomes.
During the early COVID-19 period, HN commenters linked it as the clearest quick explanation of what exponential growth means for an epidemic.
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