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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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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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[IANAD] hydroxychloroquine is an immunosuppressant and shouldn't be combined even with vaccines ( https://www.medicinenet.com/hydroxychloroquine/article.htm#w... ), so using it when immune system is ...
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
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Korea has released all of their data and I think this is possible to cross checkhttps://hira-covid19.net/...
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Where does Factual get their data from? They've got tons of big name partners, who I assume share it with them, then combine it to get a wider view:https://www.factual.com/company/partners/Since Fours...
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My personal morals find a difference between “we sell physical goods and anyone can buy them without restriction” and “we will build you a whole set of dedicated custom data centers with racist hiring...
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Very on-topic username, FreshFruitGuy.Here are a couple more citations that have more data behind them, if somebody wants to dig into it (and has the journal access):* https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc...
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Another source of data is the state employment WARN lists, which is the official list of notifications required of companies when making big layoffs:https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/warn/WARN-...
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Sorry if self-plug isn't acceptable, I built one recently using Airtable to crowdsource data - https://www.freshgrads.info/corona-hiring-impact-tracker/...
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It appears to get data from two sources:1: Self-reported2: Reported in public lists of layoffshttps://layoffs.fyi/share-layoff-intel/...
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You didn't finish the comparison for cases for capita.Bouches-du-Rhône has ~3% of the French population and ~4% of the covid-19 hospitalizations.The department of Paris has ~3% of the French populatio...
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If the results are so good it would be impressive. But it will be necessary to take a look at the data. Dollar to doughnuts they have a horrible methodological mistake, like a bad classification of th...
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Do you have links to data for excess mortality? I'm struggling to find any localised data.Here is country wide mortality data: https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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Most likely lack of data. NYC has data with deaths vs comorbidity but I haven't seen it for anywhere else: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d......
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Link to the actual paper:https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2820...Estimates are in the last column of Table 1 (page 5).These seem roughly in line with CDC estimates for the US, s...
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