It seems like you only pick the time-frame where there was international attention on the issue. I would expect that this attention raised the discovery rate.
I pick just recent numbers, but exponential two-day doubling trend in infections and deaths is visible in the wiki-table from 16 January, or for around 5-6 doublings. Total growth for 12 days is around 100 times.
It has been doubling in this time frame, but that’s because of its unique circumstances. Many other illnesses have had a similar rise when they first appear, but illnesses tend to have their peak and then cycle down. Perhaps this may change, but the data does not indicate that yet.
Where did you get the idea that the number of infected people doubles every two days? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/g2F5BBfhTNESR5PJJ/concerning-the-recent-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak suggests that each person might infect 2.6 people on average and the incubation time is relatively long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak
23.01 − 830
24.01- 1287
25.01- 1,975
26.01 − 2,744
27.01 − 4,515
It seems like you only pick the time-frame where there was international attention on the issue. I would expect that this attention raised the discovery rate.
I pick just recent numbers, but exponential two-day doubling trend in infections and deaths is visible in the wiki-table from 16 January, or for around 5-6 doublings. Total growth for 12 days is around 100 times.
It has been doubling in this time frame, but that’s because of its unique circumstances. Many other illnesses have had a similar rise when they first appear, but illnesses tend to have their peak and then cycle down. Perhaps this may change, but the data does not indicate that yet.