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If at First You Don’t Succeed, Revise, Revise Again

I’ve posted a few times about OC COVID-19 results the last few weeks. One of the issues is the data has HUGE (YUGE perhaps?) revisions on the number of tests well after the fact.

Here is a chart showing the number of tests reported by he day I downloaded the data.

OC Testing Numbers by Reporting Date

Now, I get that if I look at data on May 25th, the last couple of days may need revisions. But on May 29th, the data for May 15th (2 weeks!!!) was revised up by 40%.

The same thing happened on May 19th. That data was revised on June 4th, two weeks after the fact.

I have no idea what is going on with these major revisions, but it makes some analyses hard.

By Christopher Schwarz, ago

Somewhere, Something Went Terribly Wrong

I haven’t posted this in a while: Comparison of US to Italy and the EU lining up the peaks.

Bottom line: The U.S. is way, way, way, way behind reducing cases. In fact, the 7 day average of cases is rising the last few days.

The effects are yet to be seen, but I can imagine this will continue to drive consumers to stay at home and may lead to new closures.

By Christopher Schwarz, ago