WARNING: America Can No Longer Count On Accurate Information From The CDC /NT

[uponit7771]

WARNING: America Can No Longer Count On Accurate Information From The CDC /NT

[Squinch]

1. I agree, but what makes you say so?

[BigmanPigman]

3. Rachel Maddow is doing a story about the CDC reports.

They are not accurate or reliable due to Lump's influence.

[Squinch]

4. So glad she is doing this!

[guillaumeb]

6. And the forecast is terrifying.

Informed projections versus Trump/Pence nonsense.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I have been following the charts and graphs for the US

and the world for 6 weeks using the ones mentioned on Rachel's shows. No surprises here for me. My eyes are open and I am a realist. When I look at particular countries and states I can see who is likely reporting real numbers and who isn't. It is pretty obvious once you check them over only a short period of time.

http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[Igel]

10. They're pretty close.

Details are often reporting cutoffs, with some variation on how probable-COVID deaths are reported.

CDC also includes pneumonia and excess deaths, so if you think corpses are kept off-the-books you can review that data, too. (And even track it back to the state sites.)

I like worldometer's new 3-day running average, but while it makes clear the nice diminishing periodic wave from reporting, part of me also would like a longer average to try to de-hump it entirely.

[guillaumeb]

14. The problem as we both know, is that Trump produces a torrent of lies.

And his lies about COVID19 are what people want to hear, so Trump voters cling to those lies.

[BigmanPigman]

15. Classic salesman/conman move.

[guillaumeb]

16. It works. Trump knows that, if little else. eom

[Iliyah]

2. nor the intelligence community . . .

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[LizBeth]

7. I stopped from the start of this when I saw them bend to Trump and not science. But very much so now

[uponit7771]

9. +1, things are getting worse. RM showed the 134k was based on testing assumption. We're screwed ...

... if by June there's no "want a test get a test" campaign going along with isolation and contact tracing.

Putin must be dehydrating from constant ...

[LizBeth]

12. I am staying in for another month. Just saying. What is a month? Maybe two. Oregon is giving July 6.

[KT2000]

11. CDC has always been sensitive to politics

They dithered away the money for research into Lyme Disease and forget about any illnesses related to chemical exposures. Better workers die that someone risk their career for controversial illnesses.

[Hekate]

13. I noticed. ETTD