this disease. Nobody has a good understanding of it because all of the data is garbage. The only thing anyone knows is that if you are old and get it, bad news. If you are young and get it, probably will be ok. Mortality rate, positivity rate, how it spreads, how contagious it is, etc... the list goes on. Nobody has a clue.
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First example off the top of my head: Lancet Hydroxy chloroquine study. Could come up with dozens if I think about it but I am sick of thinking about it.
The treatments are getting better every month. That's because the data is getting better.
That's how science works.
Amassing bad data is not how science works.
The Lancet study that I already pointed out is also not how science works.
The information out of Florida yesterday, not how science works.
The CDC commingling test data, not how science works.
Rube.
Most are speculative and not peer-reviewed, or they reporting small findings. All is being done in the hope that together they will form a basis of knowledge about this virus.
That's how science works.
It's not any of their individual faults it's because the data is shit.
We have the technology to analyze and model based on data, we lack good quality data. Garbage in = garbage out.
IrishMac is right, we hardly know anything about this virus that we can say with certainty. After 4 months of trying to figure it out we're seemingly no closer to a solution.
Treatments are getting better only through trial and error, not science. Science is even hindering that process, see the false Lancet study for example. It delayed studies of a potential treatment based on (let's see if you can guess it).
And, yes, what's happening in Florida with its data, and perhaps in some other states, is embarrassing.
Hard enough trying to explain data science concepts to a political scientist that denies postmodernist influences in his field without the political easy out...
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The CDC is the best infectious disease center in the world.
Instead we’re going to havd pandemic data compiled and released (ha!) by the corrupt jackass morons in the White House.
This is terrible.
"Best in the world". Really?
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/
Other countries model their public health system on our CDC. The Chinese call theirs the "Chinese Center for Disease Control."
This administration has done its best to muzzle it, and put dopes in charge...but its professionals remain the best in the world.
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Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/cdc-virus-takeaways.html
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I suppose that's one definition of best.
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