05-21-2021, 12:33 PM
(05-21-2021, 10:50 AM)jeffster Wrote: Case count today was 844 (May 20). Yesterdays (May 19) case count was 1,000 (965 plus 35 additional). The case count for the day prior lost 62 cases.
Again, this is a highly inaccurate way to present the data.
It takes about 2-3 days past the episode date to reach 50% of the eventual case count for a given date.
It takes 7-8 days lately to hit 90% of the final tally. This is expected and normal, since people take time to get sick and get tested.
It means that using episode date based numbers like you are doing here can only be done retrospectively by at lease a week and preferably more like 10-14 days.
This is my data source:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...1190036055&range=D163
Claiming the case count was 844 is highly misleading, and in my opinion irresponsible.