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kalberts30-May-20 7:06
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The "Daily New cases" and "Daily Deaths" at Worldometers.info[^] shows a markedly weekly rythm: Appearently far fewer people catch the virus during the weekend, which I strongly doubt (but I certainly recognize that we are talking about detecting the infection, not cathcing it).

But, for the deaths, following the same pattern: The virus knows nothing about weekdays. I strongly suspect that there really are as many Saturday and Sunday deaths as Monday and Tuesday deaths. I could, for myself, make a smoother curve, displaying the average death count the last three days. Yet... The death of a patient is sort of essential, isn't it? You don't just show up at work Monday morning to discover, "Hey, we have got a few more dead people around here!" The weekend personnel must have known.

What I am trying to get through: We cannot trust the reporting of Corona deaths (or maybe even any other deaths) to be up to date, complete, or accurate. If, for a significant number patients, even the date of their death cannot be reported accurately, then we cannot expect much higher reliability regarding the death cause. If they probably would have survived the stroke/heart attack if they hadn't been weakened by their corona infection, should it be filed as a corona death or a stroke/hear attack death? In the current political climate, that is certainly a political decision as much as a medical one.

The very pronounced weekly pattern is just an indicator that corona cases/death reports must be judged critially, they must be evaluated in the right context. They are not absolute values. And they are subject to policital considerations (or even political directives).
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