Yeah. Wow indeed. The dataset actually goes all the way back to the end of January, but I'm trimming it to start at the beginning of March, because the early days are pretty much invisible at the current scale.
You can change the value of `startDate` in that notebook if you'd like to look back further in time.
You could make the animation slow down exponentially, to make the growth look linear. Basically turn it into a log plot. Misleading if you don't know what you're looking at though.