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Title: Covid Cases over time in the United States Post by: dolphins4life on March 12, 2023, 04:10:05 pm This chart is interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a4k3_RMNT8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a4k3_RMNT8) Ignore the other countries, just focus on the US January to March 2020 = Spike April 2020 = drop May and June 2020 = Spike July and August 2020 = Drop September to November in 2020 = HUGE SPIKE (WHY?) December 2020 to February 2021 = DRAMATIC DROP March 2021 = Spike April and May 2021 = Drop What could account for these? I know in some months people were locking down. The vaccine rollout also can affect these numbers Title: Re: Covid Cases over time in the United States Post by: Dave Gray on March 13, 2023, 09:51:18 am Cases is a data point that has use, but it's only part of the story. Cases depends on testing and often, self-reporting.
Theoretically, if you never tested for COVID again, you'd have 0 cases. If you increase testing to fight COVID, the irony is that by fighting cases, you'd have more cases. You wouldn't really, but it's what the data would suggest. |