coronavirus case counts are meaningless*
coronavirus case counts are meaningless*
correction (april 13, 2020, 1:47 p.m.): in describing what it would take for the new coronavirus to begin to die out, a previous version of this story incorrectly referred to the r value falling below zero, which is not possible.", "given that includes people who probably do have the coronavirus (since asymptomatic cases are fairly common), we can assume the rate of false positives is even lower -- for the purpose of the scenarios, we'll guess that it's 0.2 percent.")