Math is hard

I read an article this morning in which the author demonstrated either a complete lack of understanding about how math works, or a complete indifference to writing a correct sentence to support her claim.  Here's the exact quote:

Statistics out of New York show that exponentially more residents are dying at home as compared with normal times—200 a day as compared with 20 to 25

Sigh.

For the record, you can't draw any conclusions at all about a mathematical pattern from two data points.  It could be linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, or any other one of an infinite number of possibilities.