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Wait the article says there's 200k cases in the U.K everyday now? Why is google reporting way lower? [1] [1]https://i.imgur.com/u6KABa5.png https://i.imgur.com
by malikNF 4y ago
Wait the article says there's 200k cases in the U.K everyday now? Why is google reporting way lower? [1]
[1]https://i.imgur.com/u6KABa5.png https://i.imgur.com/u6KABa5.png
- __alexs 4y agoPresumably it's based on the ONS estimates.
- abainbridge 4y agoI guess it is because the UK stopped doing as much testing. Presumably Google is reporting the number of positive tests (or something) and many people with covid don't bother getting tested any more. The ONS is still doing random sampling and extrapolating to say how many people in the country are infected. "Around 1.7m people in the UK had coronavirus in the week ending 18 June" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
- peteradio 4y agoYou are misquoting, its estimated infections not cases. Not everyone who has an active infection gets a test and reports it, in fact its a small fraction.