On the recent plateauing as noted by
@Healdplace : data from the FT using 7 day averages.
First the bad new: cases.
Split by country, and using a log scale. On a log scale, exponential growth or decay is a straight line, and you can see
(1) Very close agreement to exponential decay for all nations until recently. For England, that was halving every 15 days. Scotland a bit longer half time.
(2) All nations slow or stop the decline in the last few days
(3) England cases are currently still quite a bit higher than the other countries.
Given how high these caseloads are still (~10,000 daily, which historically has worked through to ~250 deaths) this is bad news unless it proves temporary. We can expect
the planned return to school in a couple of weeks to worsen the situation too.