Covid-19: 1 in 1,000 people worldwide confirmed to have had disease

Looking through Worldometer's COVID-19 page just now, I was startled by the worldwide case count, initially misreading it as total population. But no, 7,709,358 cases have been diagnostically confirmed, just a hair under one per thousand of global population.

Given testing lags and shortfalls, the ground truth is undoubtedly higher, though by how much is in question.

Growth has been less than exponential for quite some time, though accellerating again for the past few weeks. How much this represents actual containment and how much is measurement artefact is also unclear.

Brazil, India, and Russia are rapidly gaining on the US for total cases (Brazil's daily new count surpassed the US some days ago). African numbers remain implausibly low.

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