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Why is "has province reported any cases?" the most meaningful information? Ignoring the current reality of every province having reported cases since January, a
by danso 7y ago
Why is "has province reported any cases?" the most meaningful information? Ignoring the current reality of every province having reported cases since January, a simple boolean shading would obfuscate nearly every vital insight realistically conceivable. If it were the case that 3 months after the Hubei outbreak, Hubei had 100,000 reported cases, and all bordering provinces had 1-100, that is an extremely important distinction to make when assessing the effectiveness of containment policies (and/or the trustworthiness of official government numbers).
- hackinthebochs 7y agoI agree with what you're saying about reporting cases in China. My point was in the context of reporting elsewhere in the world where most areas have zero cases and so having cases or not is the most important information, followed by the number of cases. I should have been clearer.