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Data Submitted by the Italian Civil Defense on COVID19 in Italy, Updated Daily

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Re: Data Submitted by the Italian Civil Defense on COVID19 in Italy, Updated Daily

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I wonder if Zeit, people with machine learning background, could do to help given open data. Is there some open source project or so to contribute to that does something helpful e.g. predicting cases or areas at risk?

I'm not sure about prediction efforts, but here's a map: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

BTW, I'm really thankful to those who put this together.

Re: Data Submitted by the Italian Civil Defense on COVID19 in Italy, Updated Daily

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I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. LabCorp and Quest are two of those that are ready. The labs at the universities and private companies had to verify the results of the tests they created. It's important to note that no other country has widespread testing either. They simply take spit swabs and test a sample of them from a location. It's a much less preci…

> I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. For those places not ready by Friday, I wonder how much effort was put into being ready by Saturday or Sunday instead of Monday...

I'm sure it varies place to place and depends on staffing and budget of each lab. The two biggest ones were up and running Friday.

Re: Data Submitted by the Italian Civil Defense on COVID19 in Italy, Updated Daily

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Sometimes politicians look good for having "done something" because there is no counterfactual to compare against to create accountability.

Well China has cut their number of cases so they did something that worked.

That's a broken window fallacy; how many people have perished because of degradation of infrastructural services? I don't think we'll ever know.
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