News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy. Parent comment

Re:The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavi... by viceroyalbean on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:19AM (#22945821)
Where are you getting that from? FHM's Covid-19 tracker [1] shows the most deaths occurring on 8/4. Of course, because there's a lag in the reporting that is likely to change over time. Either way, the data for yesterday is too incomplete to make any statements about yet.

[1] https://fohm.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/6...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavi... by scythe on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:12AM (#22946389)
It's from here:

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

Artifacts of data representation undermine the direct translation to deaths occurring on a certain day, but for the purposes of saying "middle of an outbreak" this is probably enough.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavi... by kzrdude on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:30PM (#22951313)
Two different ways to present the deaths: attributed to the date of death, or attributed to the date they were reported by FHM.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavi... by viceroyalbean on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:57AM (#22953485)
That makes sense, though I would advice against the latter way since it will show massive dips and spikes due to variation in reporting. Notably, the reports dip every weekend and there was a huge dip over Easter that took ages to get caught up.
[ Parent | on HN ]