Talking about exponential growth... back on the 31st of January, when I heard the novel coronavirus mentioned in the news, I blogged about how there were "9776 cases confirmed affecting 20 countries already, with the vast majority in China", regarding this '2019-nCoV' virus, as it was known back then.

2.5 months later, this number has jumped to more than 1.5 million cases, becoming a pandemic affecting most of the nations in the world. Italy and Spain were hit hard, as well as the US, a country that has become by far the new epicenter of this disease.

The strict social distancing rules have slowed down transmission in the communities adopting these measures (with the unfortunate side effect of paralyzing their economies). Let's cross our fingers that all those efforts will contain this nasty virus.