More or less. This is a reasonably useful way to compare the epidemics in different countries:Originally Posted by Flixy
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ICU usage informative but not a useful way to compare as selection criteria differs between countries.
More or less. This is a reasonably useful way to compare the epidemics in different countries:
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ICU usage informative but not a useful way to compare as selection criteria differs between countries.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
No an honest graphic would be setting day 1 as the first day of the outbreak not cherry picking a day (in this case 10 deaths) so the data of a couple of days afterwards matches what you want to show. Looking at that graph it appears this virus only arrive in the UK for instance 9 days ago which is not much data rather than the reality that it arrived here and has been spreading here since literally the same day as Italy.
Hence why a week ago they had another dodgy graphic showing cases overlaid from case 100 onwards trying to force that on an exponential scale to show the same thing but then the data diverged so they switched.
This isn't the time for clickbait dodgy graphs.
Last edited by RandBlade; 03-22-2020 at 06:14 AM.
Or political pandering.
The truth is that none of UK's "testing" really matters when they still kept important variables like schools, restaurants, pubs and bars open.
Sure it did because it contained the virus flattening it for a month. Then when the closure came it was able to be more organised, dealing with the parents first before the children so the children didn't become a vector for sending the virus on to grandparents etc.
Considering the virus arrived in Italy and in the UK on the same day one of tracking it certainly does seem that the testing has made a world of difference if you track from day one.
Then why is the UK reporting a surge of people infected, and an "explosion" in ICU needs?
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