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It's "seasonal" and by that we mean it does something different in each season in each country or even state. What the hell?
by perl4ever 5y ago
It's "seasonal" and by that we mean it does something different in each season in each country or even state. What the hell?
- verdverm 5y agoThis was expected, it behaved like a bad flu. Virus have temporal and geographic patterns, they do not roll out all at one everywhere. The expectation by experts is 3 years until some semblance or normality. We still have more than a year to go, assuming people can become comfortable when they realize it is endemic
- nradov 5y agoAnother possibility is that we're seeing phantom patterns in the data which are really just noise. Maybe the differences between countries and seasons are mostly random? That's basically the null hypothesis and I haven't seen anyone convincingly disprove it.