Ep 33) Manipulating Data To Fit A Political Belief | #CoronaVirus episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 23, 2020 · 57 MIN

Ep 33) Manipulating Data To Fit A Political Belief | #CoronaVirus

from The Jacob Johnston Show · host Jacob Johnston

That has been a lot of attempt to analyze the data to assess the risk of the corona virus and determine if you are going to far in the response or not far enough. The problem is that we don't really have the date, this Virus globally is new to human and outbreak just under 6 months ago and less than 3 months in the US. Most speculation is based on guessing about the data we don't have because of the lack of testing. On this show I point out what is wrong with most analysis and show what the data we do have, however limited is showing us. I also spend time explaining the idea of slowing the spread. There doesn't seem to be away to contain the virus so slowing the spread is about buying time. Time to refit our manufacturing facilities, increase production of needed medical equipment to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed while we do so. What we have seen is that while the death rate in the US is at 1.28% now, we see that as the corona virus continues to spread the death rates are going up.

That has been a lot of attempt to analyze the data to assess the risk of the corona virus and determine if you are going to far in the response or not far enough. The problem is that we don't really have the date, this Virus globally is new to human and outbreak just under 6 months ago and less than 3 months in the US. Most speculation is based on guessing about the data we don't have because of the lack of testing. On this show I point out what is wrong with most analysis and show what the data we do have, however limited is showing us. I also spend time explaining the idea of slowing the spread. There doesn't seem to be away to contain the virus so slowing the spread is about buying time. Time to refit our manufacturing facilities, increase production of needed medical equipment to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed while we do so. What we have seen is that while the death rate in the US is at 1.28% now, we see that as the corona virus continues to spread the death rates are going up.

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