Proof that the most popular fearmongering "worldmeters.info" site fakes the fake WHO COVID-19 data even more! Active cases WW are too high by 1M and for the US by 600K Besides everything we know about  the inaccurate virus definition, fake/unreliable tests, incorrect case counting and so on, there is a major flaw on the commonly used site https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. These numbers are shown on the top of the site. Even using the official WHO numbers (which surely are already overdone), the number of active cases is by more than 1 million too high. The number of active cases is calculated minus the closed cases, which include the recovered and the deaths. The main reason for the error is the far too low number of recovered persons, especially for the US (>600K) and the UK (~100K). For the UK they count zero recovered cases ("N/A") and the rest remains "active" infinitely. Here their numbers. Note that in China (where the fearmongering began) there are only 104 active cases left and only 3 deaths/million. Ridiculous!. The relevant graph is this one from the worldwide data  and this one from the US data (scroll down there for the graph). The total number of cases and the number of deaths will increase always an then stop at some level. That looks scary because the curve will never turn downwards (unless there's a correction). But only the number of active cases is the basis for the spread. If there's no increase in active cases, it's not an epidemic. But the worldmeters graph shows an increase for the worldwide and US active cases. Now look at the daily new cases there. Since more than 5 weeks that number is slightly falling. In most countries an average case lasts about 14-17 days. So with these "new case" numbers there must be at least the same amount of closed cases 14-17 days later and the number of active cases must start to decrease.     Now look at the official WHO numbers that are used on this site. Screenshot.  (translated here) The colors of the graphs are blue for infections (cases), orange for deaths, light green for recovered and dark green for infectious (active cases). On the top of the page you can switch between the data sources but there are only small differences. And there's a csv data export on the site if you want to do your own calculations. Today's WHO number for active cases ww is 1.4M and for the US 418k. In all the correct graphs the horizontal difference between the nearly parallel lines for cases and recovered is 14-17 days. So that's much more plausible here. And as you see here, the number of active cases is already declining in the US and not constantly increasing as worldmeters.info tries to tell us. What a difference, 418K instead of 1.034M (US)  and 1.443M instead of 2.461M (worldwide)! And by the way, as Wyatt noted,  Exponential growth is defined as increase that accelerates over time. the numbers did never increase exponentially. In Mid-March they looked a bit like an exponential graph but it was only an 1-2 week change from a flat linear function to a steeper approximattely linear increase. Now we see sharp declines and/or flattening of active case curves. If you look at "US cases" and "cases worldwide, the increase is less than linear, let alone exponential.     And I would predict that the number of "corona" deaths per week is limited by the usual overall number of deaths (this wouldn't be possible with exponential growth). Because the reason of death is just re-labeled from flu, pneumonia, accident etc. and the sum remains the same. Unless they start to kill people, i.e. with wrong treatment like they seem to do in NY.  An exponential graph looks like this (here 1.5X) (created on https://www.desmos.com/calculator). 233  is more than the number of people on earth. The increase of an exponential function (basis > 1) is always increasing so it will seem to go fast towards infinity. They always talked about exponential increase but it was always approximately linear, so it's far less dangerous.