Important for updating on prevalence of "asymptomatic COVID" — many may be asymptomatic when they test positive, but go on to develop symptomshttps://twitter.com/Iceland_Review/status/1245690575808008192 …
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This seems especially likely to throw off your data if you rapidly ramp up testing capacity while the real-world spread still fits an exponential curve, since a much larger % of your cases will be from the last week than from 2 weeks ago
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There's a similar problem with trying to get a handle on CFR — if your cases are still growing exponentially, but it takes 3-4 weeks for people to fall mortally ill, a disproportionately large number of new cases will mask the deaths from earlier cohorts
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It seems that for now the problem is in the opposite direction. As of this tweet, US has 7,077 deaths and 9,521 recovered. It might be recovery numbers that need to "catch up" due to death being quicker.
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These are just confirmed numbers of course.
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