You are right - it is actually mentioned in the article - sorry about that. I would still say that it is somewhat silly to apply Benford's law here - also in t

You are right - it is actually mentioned in the article - sorry about that. I would still say that it is somewhat silly to apply Benford's law here - also in the non-cumulative case. The distribution of the daily number how much disease is circulating - where I am at the moment we have daily numbers stable at some 40-50 thousands, leading to 4 and 5 being overrepresented, without it being in any way being fraudulent or made up.