April 27th, 2020 by WCBC Radio
Although total COVID-19 cases skyrocketed this week, nearly all of the increase was experienced in one nursing home. While emphasizing it's tough on the residents, their families and staff in that facility, Cumberland Mayor Ray Morriss did some math and analyzed the Friday to Friday difference, and found some glimmers of hope…
April 27, 2020 at 7:44 am, mac said:
The problem is not that only 22 people outside of the nursing home have the virus, the problem is that those 22 can start an exponential change to the number of infections.
If each of the 22 infect one individual the number jumps to 44. If each of those 44 infect one individual the number jumps to 88. And so on.