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mlavin
2291 days ago
Please remember that epidemics must, by rules of reality, logistic curves, not exponential.
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jhart99
2291 days ago
Yes at some point the new infections has to go down if for no other reason than there is no one left to infect. As you said it must be logistic, because after a while infected people simply bump into fewer and fewer uninfected people.
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altcognito
2290 days ago
Thanks, I was wondering what the name of the curve was, because logically there is no way it ends up being totally exponential.
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mlavin
2290 days ago
And to be more specific, you can roughly model it with a Gompertz function:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function
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