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We were mostly lucky to have about four times as many ventilators as France or Italy.The numbers I read in two different sources: Germany has about 20,000 ventilator places, while France, Italy, Spain...
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They've taken some mitigation steps - closing high schools and universities, banning large gatherings, encouraging work from home, social distancing, etc. It's also unclear if it's working:https://abc...
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The Office for National Statistics is gathering lots of data for the England and Wales (but not NI or Scotland). (There's some lag in the ONS data)."The provisional number of deaths registered i...
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Let them have a look at [1]It shows a graph of the death rates for the past 3 years. This year is not a good year (to put it mildly)If they're Dutch, then they know what the RIVM stands for. For other...
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In other words, the submission title is misleading: the effects of poverty are type of trauma. We're not talking about "too poor to afford the latest game console" here; we're talking about...
show context + On: Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee y
show context + On: Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee y
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Stipulating most of your comment, gender can still easily be a top predictor of memory / intelligence / etc., because "top" is an ordinal concept. That just says it has more of an effect tha...
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Paper:https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.1...If I'm reading the results table in the linked paper correctly, it seems that household wealth was only a significant predictor of ...
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Are there similar calculations for European countries? Several countries are easing lockdowns based on the idea that the transmission rate has become manageable. I'd love to see how those numbers stac...
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
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Interesting article. In late March I built a simple SEIRD model for a few US states with python. It was very difficult to estimate R0. R0 is essentially Beta/Gamma, where Beta^-1 is is time between co...
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India's tests/M is 149. Brazil's 296. Compared to 8894 of USA as of today.Positive % out of tests: USA ~20%, India: ~5%, Brazil: ~38%.But at least here in India we test when we are like really really ...
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Or it's just inaccurate data. I wonder how many cases of COVID19 deaths being reported as "pneumonia" [1] (technically correct, but also untrue) as in this story?Also keep in mind the "...
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There's a couple problems with this:* deaths are also likely to be under reported (although, I agree, probably still better than the total unknown people who haven't been tested)* a decreasing number ...
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In the UK we have two death counts.The one that's used most (the one that appears every day) is here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c9...That is people who test positive fo...
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There is a table here that shows what you're calculating by hand:https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#the-growth-rate-of-co......
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Best data is excess mortality.Many deaths won't be attributed to covid19 but still caused by it.Here an explanation:https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1249996541424816128...
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Belgium has this specifically for our country [0]. It has a 4 week lag, but they've started to include interim data in the weekly updates by the national bureau for epidemics. The last weekly update i...
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I saw an interesting alternate statistics where you measure the overall mortality rate and compare to previous years. EU only, but something like this might exist elsewhere as well:http://euromomo.eu/...
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> This study tries to estimate Rt in several European countries from the death rates though there are issues with those statistics too: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19estimates/Most ob...
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If you look at test results you probably won't learn much. There will be far fewer tests than cases and most cases will never be tested. It seems more likely that you'll just be measuring some other e...
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You are certainly correct, and those are nice to have.It pays to keep in mind that in order to deduct an expense, you have to pay the expense. So as a freelancer, when I pay for my computer, that's $1...
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