Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted. Although the number of daily deaths had increased, the rate of that increase had begun to ease off. AdvertisementThree weeks later, Levitt told the China Daily News that the virus’ rate of growth had peaked. He predicted that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in China would end up around 80,000, with about 3,250 deaths. The number of newly diagnosed patients has dropped to around 25 a day, with no cases of community spread reported since Wednesday.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2020 21:00 UTC