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Ask HN: Why I cannot find public data on coronavirus single cases?
I would expect to find in the internet data about coronavirus single cases: not just the basics (age, blood type, weight, city, ...) but more and much more data, allowing scientists, statisticians or whoever to make inference: maybe as easy as spotting correlation, or much better as principal component analysis/discriminant analysis.
I would expect a web interface, where selected personnel are allowed to enter and share data with the rest of the world (I’m an internationalist)
Tell me that I am just not aware that these databases exists!
(I imagine several nations do provide opendata with the basic, but I do really mean detailed data, collected with some uniform worldwide standard)
- pdm55 7y agoChinese researchers might be collecting data, now that the initial chaos is Wuhan has been addressed. “Some of the reasons for the lack of autopsies and biopsies include the suddenness of the outbreak, the vast patient volume in hospitals, shortage of healthcare personnel, and the high rate of transmission, which makes invasive diagnostic procedures less of a clinical priority.” https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-examined-in-lung-tissue-of-symptomless-patients/ https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-... The Italians are obviously overwhelmed: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-h... The Germans would be my best guess for methodical data collection https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-of-coronavirus-study-finds-but-most-are-likely-not-infectious-after-recovery-begins/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09/people-shed-high-levels-... But the South Koreans have done the most tests of their population. Dennis Carroll points out that addressing the COVID-19 disease requires international cooperation: nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming One guy has been collecting lots of resources, including journal articles: https://virus.travel/cs https://virus.travel/cs
- pdm55 7y agoUK Gov advice to "Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms ... testing is not needed" is another reason for the paucity of data. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
- oriettaxx 7y agoyes, http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p... is a very good read, and it is actually what woke up my (mostly forgotten) background in statistics
- thedevindevops 7y agoYou're wondering why coronavirus patients have a right to privacy?
- oriettaxx 7y agodo you mean that privacy could be a reason why? Yes, I bet there are several issue related to it, but I have no doubt that a solution to anonymize data could be found
- sidesquid 7y agohttps://co.vid19.sg/ https://co.vid19.sg/
- oriettaxx 7y agodoes the URL work for you?
- oriettaxx 7y agoJust to make an example: I realized myself only yesterday that my (very bad) attitude to chew my fingers (biting the skin around nails) put me at a higher risk: it is just personal idea, of course, but I am sure few data could easily prove a correlation that could sure help. Smoking too, if you think: apart from other damage, smokers are all the time putting their fingers on their lips I would really expect that all kind of (even) crazy data would be collected: then with (even classic) statistical methods and today's powerful and cheap CPU, you can very easily discriminate and get only what could explain a higher risk.
- oriettaxx 7y agothere is this one, https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus but the need is analytical data
- oriettaxx 7y agowow, only one dataset in the E.U. https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset?q=covid&ext_boolean=all&sort= https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset?q=covid&ext_boo... impressive!