Great explanation Rick. And thanks, as always, for sharing your code behind these charts.

Readers might be interested to see the work in our public GitHub repository. First, we have a collaboration with Cleveland Clinic that is centered around projecting the curve of new cases and hospital capacity given different "social distancing" (or NPI) measures. And more recently, we've added code that SAS users can adopt to fetch public COVID-19 data such as what you've used here from the New York Times, the John Hopkins University data, and IMHE.

And I'm going to go watch that Flatten the Curve video right now.