So I think we& #39;ve made the point now that it was an unnecessarily scary example. I& #39;d hoped they might retract it in the briefing today, but at least they didn& #39;t show it again. From now on I& #39;m going to zoom in a bit so we can see more detail. Fingers crossed for a levelling off!

It has shown though that it& #39;s quite good to have a benchmark to track against as it helps keep things focused and in context. For example here is the same chart but with a doubling in 14 days instead:

And the specimen date version zoomed in:

And specimen date with 14 day doubling period: