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Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88
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Actually check this out.......Georgia's numbers are off...
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regi...9XEF8vO11NVGO/
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In the latest bungling of tracking data for the novel coronavirus, a recently posted bar chart on the Georgia Department of Public Health’s website appeared to show good news: new confirmed cases in the counties with the most infections had dropped every single day for the past two weeks.
In fact, there was no clear downward trend.
...When the pandemic began, the agency assigned a date to a case based on the day results came into its office. Starting in late April, DPH added charts that date a new coronavirus case back to the day a patient said symptoms started. If that data isn’t reported, DPH substitutes the date the test sample was collected or when it was received results.
But because it can take weeks for case information to come in, the new method always appears to show that cases are declining, even if they are not. The charts that used it stirred suspicion and confusion, and ran afoul of principles for communicating during a public health crisis, experts said.
...One example is a map of Georgia cases and infection rates that colors counties in shades of blue or red based on local rates of infection. In recent weeks, DPH raised the bar on how high an infection rate needs to be before a county is colored red.
“Based on the (key) they were using a couple weeks ago, a good third to a half of our state would show up as red right now,” Heiman said. “Because they keep moving the goalposts, if you will, it doesn’t look that way.”
On Monday morning, DPH reported about 2,400 more confirmed cases than actual tests performed.
On Tuesday, DPH updated its charts again with clearer labeling that some of its most recent data is preliminary. But one chart for cases and deaths uses such a large numeric key, the number of deaths appear to be almost zero....
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Look at these graphs and charts...
https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
There is absolutely no reason to manipulate graphs that way unless you want to make it look like things are declining no matter what. Backdating positive tests like that just delays the rise by 2 weeks, so at most Georgia officials are pushing off public panic and the inevitable by a half month.