THE BIG IDEA. What the Coronavirus Curve Teaches Us About Climate Change Humans don’t easily grasp the concept of exponential growth, but it’s exactly why coronavirus has gotten so hard to ...

Five thousand cases of Ebola is bad; 10,000 to 25,000 is unbelievable. And that's where the exponential curve comes into play. "Well, an exponential curve is a curve that doubles every certain ...

This so-called exponential curve has experts worried. If the number of cases were to continue to double every three days, there would be about a hundred million cases in the United States by May.