We have never had time series data for any other illness, to this granularity. The data is also terribly dirty.
The CDC doesn't track flu. It tracks pneumonia deaths, and then retroactively uses surveillance data to estimate the number of deaths from different infections.
U Washington also seems to be using entirely different data sets than Johns Hopkins and the metrics for international data is not the same at all. I did a post on some of the issues I found:
The CDC doesn't track flu. It tracks pneumonia deaths, and then retroactively uses surveillance data to estimate the number of deaths from different infections.
U Washington also seems to be using entirely different data sets than Johns Hopkins and the metrics for international data is not the same at all. I did a post on some of the issues I found:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/fighting-with-the-data/