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A US specific question - Does anyone know of a dashboard where you can see the trend of the Covid-19 positive cases by state? I would find it helpful to see if

by vgchh 7y ago

A US specific question - Does anyone know of a dashboard where you can see the trend of the Covid-19 positive cases by state? I would find it helpful to see if my state is trending up/flat/down. For example, in MA the cases had been doubling by day, except Yesterday they only jumped from 91 to 95. It would be good to see the trend for MA as well as for other states.

alex_young 7y ago
Unfortunately the availability of tests is so limited we really have no idea of how many cases there are in any given state at the moment. That said, the CDC publishes this data on a state basis daily here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  It could probably be pretty readily inferred from "pneumonia and flu cases in which medical aid has been sought" data by extracting the normal seasonal trend from the current data. In the UK, hospitals/local health centres track this data (and deaths are tracked down to quite a fine resolution, differentiating types of flu, for example) and presumably they're putting it on their networked computers so in theory the data is there in real time. The gov.uk site "Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK" has now been updated -- to remove any localisation of data. I suppose they think "if people can't easily access the data they can't know how bad things are", which when you need to convince people of how bad things are in order to control an epidemic seems like a "curious" move. Someone is going to say "but you can drill down on this other site and get figures for England" ... to which I say, yes, but gov.uk is for the UK as a whole and is the authoritative website. I wish they'd just admit no-one is publishing infection spread data for Wales. Is this political? Well (non-Tory) Scotland seem to be able to keep their data up front and accessible.

by vgchh 7y ago

alex_young 7y ago

Unfortunately the availability of tests is so limited we really have no idea of how many cases there are in any given state at the moment. That said, the CDC publishes this data on a state basis daily here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
It could probably be pretty readily inferred from "pneumonia and flu cases in which medical aid has been sought" data by extracting the normal seasonal trend from the current data. In the UK, hospitals/local health centres track this data (and deaths are tracked down to quite a fine resolution, differentiating types of flu, for example) and presumably they're putting it on their networked computers so in theory the data is there in real time. The gov.uk site "Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK" has now been updated -- to remove any localisation of data. I suppose they think "if people can't easily access the data they can't know how bad things are", which when you need to convince people of how bad things are in order to control an epidemic seems like a "curious" move. Someone is going to say "but you can drill down on this other site and get figures for England" ... to which I say, yes, but gov.uk is for the UK as a whole and is the authoritative website. I wish they'd just admit no-one is publishing infection spread data for Wales. Is this political? Well (non-Tory) Scotland seem to be able to keep their data up front and accessible.