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I edited my comment with some data. The onset is staggered, the entire ranking thing is useless until the pandemic is over. It is simply a tracker, not an objective measure of the efficacy or the effectiveness of the measures each country is taking. It is too soon.


I've seen plenty of graphs where people plot the epidemics correcting for start date in each country, that seems pretty useful.

Edit: Here you go, here's one corrected for day of 100th case.

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1241149458089418752


This is nice but still has major confounding effects that could completely change the story:

- Amount of testing

- Sampling process of testing - i.e. Policies that govern whether someone should be tested or not. Each country has their own policy.

- Demographics, especially age

- Still shows total cases, should be cases/capita

- Some effects of weather/humidity


I agree except for cases/capita. I dont see how that is relevant during the initial phases of an epidemic, as explained above.




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