Another issue with charts drawn on a log scale is that they literally compress what has been happening *recently* when the stakes are very high (10s of thousands) while placing a lot of visual emphasis on what the slope was when you were going from say 10 cases or deaths to 100.

The US& #39;s slope has flattened quite a bit in recent days, especially in New York. Not necessarily flattened any more or less than you& #39;d expect. But it has flattened. And it& #39;s quite hard to pick that up from those charts.

To put this in a super dorky way, the shape that an epidemic curve takes is not actually exponential but sigmoidal (S-shaped / it levels off at some point) and putting a sigmoid on a log scale makes it harder to see when you hit the inflection point and start leveling off.