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Is there anywhere (global) data about total number of tests made? The plain number of positive cases is quite difficult to make sense of.
by beefield 7y ago
Is there anywhere (global) data about total number of tests made? The plain number of positive cases is quite difficult to make sense of.
- microdrum 7y agoAccording to [checks notes] the internet, you can't make this observation. If you do, you want people to die!!
- ddeck 7y agoFor the US, the COVID Tracking Project have tested, positive, negative numbers for most states. They also have the dataset available as a spreadsheet or a JSON or CSV API: https://covidtracking.com/data/ https://covidtracking.com/data/ The project was started by some journalists from The Atlantic. Seems to be a lot of duplicated effort in this area, although perhaps they are sharing data. https://covidtracking.com/about-team/ https://covidtracking.com/about-team/
- oli5679 7y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing-source-data https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing-source-data The key metric is tests/confirmed case. When I've looked, this is very predictive of confirmed cases (2 weeks ago) per death.
- beefield 7y agoThat was the best I had also found, but it is not of decent quality to me. sources seem to be quite out of date and often based on news articles, not actual daily data.
- mbostleman 7y agoI've been downloading this daily and watching some things. Mostly deaths in the US: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-tod...