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Nate Silver, an American statistician, tells us why coronavirus case counts are meaningless.
*Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated.
“The numbers are almost meaningless,” says Steve Goodman, a professor of epidemiology at Stanford University. There’s a huge reservoir of people who have mild cases, and would not likely seek testing, he says. The rate of increase in positive results reflect a mixed-up combination of increased testing rates and spread of the virus.
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