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by anoncake 2053 days ago
No country has experienced exponential growth. Exponential growth is unbounded and impossible with a finite population. The number of total infections is better described by a logistic function (epidemiologists use more sophisticated models of course, but the shape of the curve is similar).

About 28% of the Indian population has been infected (15-22% according to more pessimistic estimates). In some areas it's even higher, 41% in the slums of Mumbai.[1] The virus is running out of hosts. That is not a miracle, it's completely expected.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/indias-covid-19-case...