Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless – FiveThirtyEight

Comment: This one is for math geeks, but the bottom line is exactly what we've been writing about why Illinois has focused on the wrong data. As this author says, "I hope you’ll be a more educated consumer of COVID-19 data instead of just looking at case counts ticking upward on cable news screens without context. That context includes not only reporting about the amount of testing, but also indications such as hospital strain, which are more robust since they aren’t subject to as many vagaries about how tests are conducted."

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