A brief exercise in numeracy.
PJM: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the United States’ Coronavirus Case Numbers
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A brief exercise in lunacy.
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Uh yep, normaling is always a reasonable thing to do. So is time shifting to a common origin. Those are purty lookin’ graphs showing the US favorably until you align the star dates of the infections.
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Why? Wasn’t delaying the start of the spread in the US part of the response?
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Was it anything more than luck? The efficacy of the system, and what is measured by normalized numbers of infections, is the response of the system GIVEN the epidemic. A country that by pure happenstance of no one going there would appear to be a medical Mecca.
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“The media wants you to believe that the coronavirus in the United States is spiraling out of control the way it did in Italy. ”
Fact check: We have no idea.
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