The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York State

Last updated: 7/15/2022

The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in New York State on March 1, 2020. On March 9, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that there were 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City. (Source: Wikipedia) Let March 1, 2020 be represented by t = 0. And thus March 9th, which is 8 days later, is represented by t = 8. Assume exponential growth. Use this data to estimate the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City on March 29th, 2020. (Note: This is 28 days after March 1st). # of cases based on exponential model = Note: On March 29th, there were actually 30,765 cases.