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cord-284195-qarz4o2z	Ansumali, Santosh	A Very Flat Peak: Exponential growth phase of COVID-19 is mostly followed by a prolonged linear growth phase, not an immediate saturation	2020-04-11		.txt	text/plain	4425	196	57	As such, a few weeks after these strict measures, and noting the reported success of China, governments of various provinces and countries are waiting for the new daily infections to cross over the peak. To date, other than China which continues to report nearly zero new infected cases every day for the past few weeks, all other countries are either in an exponential phase or a linear growth phase. In this work, we note by studying the COVID-19 infection data from several countries which implemented quarantine that the exponential growth phase ends, but it is followed by a linear growth phase. As much as the linear regime suggests the end of the exponential growth phase, a correlation of the daily cases with the average number of infections at the time of transition seems to suggest that the growth is only maintained in a "pause", frozen at the state where the quarantines are implemented.	./cache/cord-284195-qarz4o2z.txt	./txt/cord-284195-qarz4o2z.txt