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The excess death numbers in the US are from the CDC, and their numbers are incomplete unless you go back about 8 weeks. I don’t know why people keep creating gr
by jtbayly 6y ago
The excess death numbers in the US are from the CDC, and their numbers are incomplete unless you go back about 8 weeks. I don’t know why people keep creating graphs and charts from their incomplete data! It paints a wrong picture every single time.
- toast0 6y agoCreating a graph with only data from 8 weeks ago would be an accurate graph, but it would tell us what we should have been doing 8 weeks ago, not what we should be doing now. Of course, death is already a lagging indicator, so really this would tell us what we should have done 10 weeks ago. It's just not an actionable graph, because it's too delayed. Of course, using incomplete data may not tell us anything either. It's also not an actionable graph, because there's too much uncertainty.