[FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

[Prof David West]

When we have comprehensive data — say a year from now — there will be hundreds of unexplained anomalies. All of the models and all of the formulas will be made more and more complex to try to account for those anomalies, the epidemiological and statistical equivalent of astronomical epicycles.

And no one will look at variations in individual and group (10-100 individuals) behavior and how they differ as a "function" of culture. And they will thereby miss the "explanation" for those anomalies.

No grocery store in the Utah counties of Kane and Garfield, had had empty toilet paper, flour, or sanitizer shelves. Not fully stocked, absent the usual variety, but never empty. A statistical / economic / "scientific" study of these two counties and any other two counties in the US with similar populations and population density/distributions will never reveal the "reason" for this phenomenon. A cultural investigation will expose the "reason" almost immediately.

I predict similar anomalies with regard spread of the disease and most importantly variations in death rates among those infected. And, the "reason" will again be cultural/behavioral.

davew




On Wed, May 6, 2020, at 3:49 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Doesn’t doubling time handle that problem? 

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> On 5/6/20 1:54 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:

>> My brother lives in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia. The map Georgia map surprises me Atlanta is not a hotspot. Atlanta dominates the population of the State. Southwest Georgia has a much higher concentration. Georgia, unlike Pennsylvania, has a large population of rural African Americans.


> This just underscores how hard it is to make sense out of absolute numbers, or more to the point, numerators without denominators. At least some of the charts of absolute numbers (as long as they are not renormalized from situation to situation) provide a visual estimation of "slope". 

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>> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:43 PM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

>>>> Hall County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 179,684. The county seat is Gainesville.

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>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/ provides maps of deaths and cases per county, raw numbers and per 100000 population. 

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>>> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:18 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:


>>>> Hall: 20,441
>>>> DeKalb: 759,297
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>>>> On 5/6/20 12:08 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> > Glen, those Hall/King comparisons are pretty dramatic. Go Kemp! What is the population of the two counties? 
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