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12 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

I'm finding this really helpful:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

Seems more accurate than https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 which seems to have wildly inaccurate figures for the UK (for anyone who couldn't be bothered to scroll down, it's 3 - that's 3 cases, not 3 deaths).

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The problem with the chart is that, unless you could travel the world first-hand and verify stories, you HAVE to assume one of the news sources (or the average of a number) is a representation of the truth. It appears they've just done this for Reuters. (Which is arguably fair enough).

But what if something happened and it were simply ignored by a number of news outlets? Does that mean it didn't happen?

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None of the UK numbers are accurate. Certainly, tests on people who are not presenting themselves as severely ill, or already in hospital, are not being carried out. It's all total guesswork at this time. Even if you get ill and recover, people in the UK will have no way of knowing is they were infected by the coronavirus or just standard flu.

I assume all the other statistics, for other countries, are mainly guesswork as well.

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2 hours ago, jonno1981 said:

That is an excellent piece of work, both as a statistical analysis and as a journalistic explanation.

Well worth 10 minutes of anyone's time.

 

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