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1. Why are growth rates not calculated to tenths of a percentage? It makes a big difference to any growth rate near zero in terms of halving and doubling times.
2. Why aren't the government also giving halving and double times for the lower and upper figures of the range? They are much easier to understand than percentages and give an idea of expected rises and drops in daily numbers of new cases of Covid-19?
Why are we being told the range but not the median growth rate? The median, is after all the statisticians' best guess for how the daily numbers are going to go up or down.

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