Linearizing the COVID-19 Data

As usual, our goal is to graph the data in such a way that the result is a straight line: we know how to fit straight lines! In order to do that, we need to figure out what we want to plot on the horizontal and vertical axes.

Hint: Take a logarithm of both sides of our model N = Ce^{Kt} and look at the result. What base logarithm makes sense here?

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