It is (far) too soon to compare the coronavirus to other pandemics

By Kent R. Kroeger (March 26, 2020)

Two sigmoid functions (Graphic by MartinThoma)

Nobody truly knows when the coronavirus pandemic will end and its final human toll.

That doesn’t stop some of us from trying to predict how this crisis will resolve.

I predicted in late January that the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) — the virus that causes the COVID-19…