Global update 30th March 2020

Not much good news in today's figures - other than that they are tracking much as expected.  The US outbreak now has more than triple the number of cases as China at a comparable point (measured by number of days after reaching 1,000 cases.  It is adding new cases at a rate of over 20,000 a day (averaging over the last few days).  In comparison, at this point in China new case numbers had halved from the peak - ie the rate of new cases in the USA is now more than ten times the rate in the Chinese outbreak (ie the slope shown by the red bars is over 10x the slope of the black line below.  
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