Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY

Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by systemvoltage on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:41PM (#22658454)

I edited my comment with some data. The onset is staggered, the entire ranking thing is useless until the pandemic is over. It is simply a tracker, not an objective measure of the efficacy or the effectiveness of the measures each country is taking. It is too soon.

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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by codeulike on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:51PM (#22658531)

I've seen plenty of graphs where people plot the epidemics correcting for start date in each country, that seems pretty useful.

Edit: Here you go, here's one corrected for day of 100th case.

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1241149458089418752

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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by systemvoltage on Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:15PM (#22659694)

This is nice but still has major confounding effects that could completely change the story:

- Amount of testing

- Sampling process of testing - i.e. Policies that govern whether someone should be tested or not. Each country has their own policy.

- Demographics, especially age

- Still shows total cases, should be cases/capita

- Some effects of weather/humidity

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Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY by codeulike on Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:56PM (#22659965)

I agree except for cases/capita. I dont see how that is relevant during the initial phases of an epidemic, as explained above.

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