Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology 1st Edition by Veronique Tran,Mark Saltzman

Exercise 5

Imagine that a small city (similar to New Haven, Connecticut, population 124,000) is facing an outbreak of a new infectious disease. The disease is spreading quickly; each infected person is infecting three uninfected people per day. To keep track of the disease, the city's health service is trying to register all newly infected patients each day. However, resources are limited and the service can only register a maximum of 15,000 patients in one day. On what day of the outbreak will the city health service reach its limit of the number of people it can register?