re: #79 Decatur Deb

covid19.healthdata.org

Worldometer explains part of the discrepancy in that it first lumped the Michigan catch-up with today’s counts, but then went back and spread them over the dates of diagnosis. U Wash is still way off on the Alabama fatals, far lower than AL Dept of Health.

Part of the issue is that IHME isn’t a tracking site, so much as a projection site. So tracking just isn’t their thing. Their FAQ says that they get their data from Johns Hopkins, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/, but it doesn’t look to me like they’re totally following it. From what I can see, the last time they updated with tracking data was on May 19th. As I said, what they care about is the future.

Of course, Worldometer, despite being the tracking site everyone uses, is kind of a black box. They say they’re “an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers”, which could mean anything. In any event, most people agree that the numbers are too low, so I wouldn’t stress out over losing minimal data integrity.