Typical game of keep changing the goal, and the metrics being reported to deceive people. And it works. the Univ. Washington data seemed to be the most accurate for the first couple months. Then at one point (late May?, early June?) they totally changed the reporting process, and ALL of the previously reported historic data. Original algorithm showed a sharp decline in infection rate in late June/ early July. The new, revised algorithm showed the infection rate going into October / November to subside (surprise, surprise...). Since then, they have changed the graphic again to merge all of the state by state data into a single U.S. total that cannot easily be compared to state based data sources to confirm accuracy.
Ky governor "King" Andy admitted last week that the positivity rate is decreasing, even as the number of new "cases" goes up. Only way that is mathematically possible is for the number of people tested to increase significantly, or, for someone to be massaging the data... He admits that the actual infection rate is going down. And then points at the increased number of cases to advocate continued / increased restrictions...
Yeah. They are cooking / massaging the data, BIGLY. In KY as well as AK...
Johns Hopkins posts a daily updated graph of the total number of covid-19 tests administered and total number of positives for the entire country and also for each individual state, too.
What I thought was quite odd though was originally they included the daily number of reported covid-19 deaths nationally and by state but for some reason they not only quit including numbers of deaths they even removed all their previous death data back to when they first started the graph.
