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Posted on 5/24/20 at 5:04 am to East Coast Band
Posted on 5/24/20 at 5:04 am to East Coast Band
No link, I’m citing the post from above in this thread. It appears to have come from The Atlantic magazine.
There’s also the report from Georgia about how they were misreporting case numbers by date, shuffling the days around to show a continued downward trend in the data. Instead of showing the days sequentially, they would manipulate them so the downward trend would remain intact so April 28th might appear AFTER May 1st to keep the slope downward. LINK. Georgia is not alone in this practice either as the link shows.
There’s also the report from Georgia about how they were misreporting case numbers by date, shuffling the days around to show a continued downward trend in the data. Instead of showing the days sequentially, they would manipulate them so the downward trend would remain intact so April 28th might appear AFTER May 1st to keep the slope downward. LINK. Georgia is not alone in this practice either as the link shows.
This post was edited on 5/24/20 at 5:06 am
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Posted on 5/24/20 at 6:32 am to phil4bama
Phil, I know nothing about the Florida report but the Georgia one is a non-issue that is IMO being driven by politics. They didn't change any numbers. They had a bar chart on their covid site that was sorted by number instead of date, simple as that. The numbers weren't inaccurate the chart just didn't provide any useful information other than which days had the most infections.
Slightly related, while annoying, all these states (and there are a bunch) that are getting antibody tests and virus tests co-mingled in their reporting doesn't bother me either. The antibody folks were at one time positive so they still had it at some point.
I said it in the other thread and I'll repeat it here - the only number that really matters is the current hospitalizations. If the cases needing that level of care are rising, you have an issue. If they're steady or falling, you don't. Again, my opinion, the reason certain groups are suddenly focusing of relatively minor data mistakes is because they predicted certain areas to be the next New York and that hasn't happened.
Slightly related, while annoying, all these states (and there are a bunch) that are getting antibody tests and virus tests co-mingled in their reporting doesn't bother me either. The antibody folks were at one time positive so they still had it at some point.
I said it in the other thread and I'll repeat it here - the only number that really matters is the current hospitalizations. If the cases needing that level of care are rising, you have an issue. If they're steady or falling, you don't. Again, my opinion, the reason certain groups are suddenly focusing of relatively minor data mistakes is because they predicted certain areas to be the next New York and that hasn't happened.
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