These graphs *do not* speak for themselves. They correspond to very very different testing regimes. The map is not the territory. We know that cases in Arizona are rising. It's worrisome. But all these comparisons with past New York are not valid and are misleading people.https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1280921756170141696 …
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Look at % capacity on the ICU as well, because there is a tipping point on lethality when the hospitals get overwhelmed, so it isn't a 1-1 comparison but it is a huge warning bell.
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But hospitals shift around patients and add capacity so a lot of misleading statistics going around on that, too. An outbreak in a small locale will easily overwhelm the hospital but then they usually transport patients. Things look bleak if you only report in the middle.
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Come on, Zeynep! You see the problem, why not just say why it's happening? Corrupting the y-axis is good for Maddow's bottom line, right? Just call it like it is.
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The y-axis crimes are across the political spectrum.
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The dataset is becoming worthless. I don't understand how when it is needed most we allowed this to happen.
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The best metric is what's called all-cause mortality in the UK (all deaths registered, regardless of the specified cause.) AKA "excess deaths". I've never found the US ACM stats. Funny, that... for the UK, it adds ~30% to the nominal Covid death toll.
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BRAVO! We are a country with too many hobbyist programmer/coders, and many inventing a smoking gun of data points to go viral and stroke their ego. Just report the damn hard numbers. Deaths, Hospitalization, and ICU.
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The misleading graphs drive me nuts! Participants this one touted by people saying “See the CDC says deaths have gone away!”pic.twitter.com/ZNR7yaEKG8
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So where do we go for accurate information?
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