re: #184 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Yes, I like the Worldmeter site — it just continues to irritate me that no two sites — even reliable ones — have the same figures.

Chalk that up to no national plan for how to deal with this.

When the federal government told the states “you’re on your own,” each state had to create their own information centre from scratch.

Since there was no common denominator between the states, then the maladministration hijacked the CDC’s usual roll in collecting data (where there could have been one site with all the information), that fell on universities, private individuals, &c to go through the patchwork of state and territorial sites to try to make something coherent out of them.

Since each private site also has no particular way to collect data, and some are more interested in one thing than another, you wind up with different displays, different methods of collating data, different charts, &c.

All of this falls directly on the White House.