Why Are We Ignoring Farr’s Law of Epidemics? Coronavirus Should be Gone by This Summer

Fewer than 200 new cases are reported daily in China, down from a peak of 4,000 in early February

Worldwide, there have been about 3,400 coronavirus deaths, out of about 100,000 identified cases.

Flu, by comparison, generally contributes to 646,000 deaths annually.

China, of course, is the origin of the virus and still accounts for over 80 percent of cases and deaths.

But its cases peaked and began ­declining more than a month ago, according to data presented by the Canadian epidemiologist who spearheaded the World Health Organization’s coronavirus mission to China.

Fewer than 200 new cases are now reported daily, down from a peak of 4,000 in February.

Subsequent countries will follow this same pattern, in what’s called Farr’s Law of Epidemics.

First formulated in 1840 and ignored in ­every epidemic hysteria since, including the hysterics involving SARS and Ebola, Farr’s has been proven to be a trustworthy map in tracking new “epidemics”.

Farr’s Law of Epidemics states that epidemics tend to rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern or bell-shaped curve…