Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 6/12/2020
This is a quick look at varying statistics on the Wuhan coronavirus in one single county in Texas, and why reliable statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are so hard to come by.
Walker County, Texas is a little over an hour’s drive north of Houston, and is home to the state’s main prison complex in Huntsville, including the execution unit.
Accord to the Texas DHS coronavirus tracking map, as of today there are 1,098 “estimated active†coronavirus cases in Walker county.
However, when you go to the website for Walker County itself, it shows precisely 223 listed cases, which it breaks down as “233 reported – 8 duplicates – 2 not county residents.†Indeed it breaks down those number into individual cases, anonymized into case numbers, sex, and age range.
Moreover, it says that 113 cases have “graduated out†(which I take to mean they’ve had it long enough to be considered recovered and not infectious), meaning there are only 110 active cases, which suggests that (depending on the culling boundary for graduated cases), the state statistics are off by a factor of 5 to 10 times compared to county statistics.
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https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=44756
