One plot I was hoping for by now is a back-in-time plot. Something that assumes for each case we find positive today, we assume that person has been polluting the world with covid-19 viruses in an effort to track events and spread based on todays data with the notion that they really caught it 2 weeks ago.
The idea is that even if we started social distancing about 7 days ago, we won't see any benefits to that for another 7 days (since the average symptom time is about 2 weeks). And so any spikes you see in these graphs is all of the people that got infected 2 weeks ago, and aren't really sick until right now.
The idea is that even if we started social distancing about 7 days ago, we won't see any benefits to that for another 7 days (since the average symptom time is about 2 weeks). And so any spikes you see in these graphs is all of the people that got infected 2 weeks ago, and aren't really sick until right now.