Many observers, including your humble poster, have felt that the most revealing statistic to use for tracking the coronavirus specter is COVID deaths. After all, that is the ultimate impact. And one key source for this data has been The Washington Post ... see: COVID deaths and click on “Deaths.”
Looking at this WaPo graph, one sees a very dramatic increase in deaths ... basically a 4x jump in one day. Wow! Is this real? Or is this more fake news ... or rather fake stats? This site offers no specific reason for this spike ... might this be another attempt by the media swamp to undermine Trump’s reopening of the U.S. economy ... in order to hamper his re-election chances?
Fortunately, we can check WaPo’s data against other sources. Please go to: World Meters and scroll down to Daily New Deaths graph. See the difference? Yes, no spike in these numbers! Can we then conclude that the numbers person(s) at WaPo has been corrupted by politics?
I conclude so.i
Afterward: See also: Powerline Entry
5 comments:
The ICU beds in hospitals in the Red states are filling to capacity. Death usually lags two to four weeks behind. Get your head out of the sand if you think the Covid 19 is behind us. Oh yeah, you and Trump think by ignoring the issue it will go away. So I am ignoring Trump in hopes he will go away.
I’m watching the numbers and even the CDC says that we might not have 2 million cases ... but 20 million! This blog is about politics creeping into the numbers ... not about Trump or what he thinks or doesn’t think.
Statistic shopping for numbers that support your preconceptions is an old, risible ploy.
Perhaps you choose "deaths" for your metric because you don't like the inconvenient new cases reported from wider testing.
If there are 20 million suspected cases (6% of population) then 94% of Americans are still susceptible. Let's stop testing and open everything up. Maybe COVID will fade away.
In a baseball game, counting the number of times a player swings the bat is interesting ... but it is hits that make a difference.
If you don't convert the hits to runs you can lose the game.
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