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Florida and Georgia seem really important since they opened up far enough back that we should be able to get a sense of how their shutdowns impacted infection r
by henriquez 6y ago
Florida and Georgia seem really important since they opened up far enough back that we should be able to get a sense of how their shutdowns impacted infection rates.
- danesparza 6y agoConsidering I live in Georgia -- yeah, I agree with you. There is tremendous social pressure here to just 'get things back to normal' without any sense that anybody is taking the virus seriously (or is capable of understanding its effects in the state). Our testing rate is at 3% of the population. That's within a statistical margin of error. Suggesting that it's 'safe to reopen the state' without having any evidence to back it up is irresponsible in my book. If I sound nervous, it's because I am.
- danesparza 6y agoThis is just bananas: https://www.covidmappingproject.com/dashboards/how-we-count-cases-in-georgia https://www.covidmappingproject.com/dashboards/how-we-count-... "A number of friends and visitors to the site have noticed a discrepancy in how we count “new” cases and how the state of Georgia is counting new cases. For example, on April 21st, Covid Mapping Project reports 934 “new” cases. Covid Tracking, a companion site run by a team from The Atlantic, doesn’t report differentials but they do report a day by day tracking of cases. On April 20, they report Georgia had 18,947 positive cases and on April 21st they reported 19,881 cases. A differential of 934. Same as us. However, if you got the GA DPH website (where most of us source our data), you’ll see 10 “new” cases. That was later revised to 84. And then 138. It's a moving number that will likely change every day for at least a week. Quite different than the 934 we’re reporting."