How to be Careful with Covid-19 Counts
Rex W. Douglass
1
Executive Summary
1.1
Key Takeaways (TLDR)
2
Global COVID-19 Count Data
2.1
Takeaways
2.2
Unit of Analysis and Definition of Measurements
2.3
Fist Order Cleaning Steps
2.4
Sources of Data
2.5
What is their geographic coverage?
2.5.1
Country Level Data Availability
2.5.2
State/Province Level Data Availability
2.5.3
County District Level Data Availability
2.6
What is their temporal coverage?
2.6.1
Coverage Across Three Countries
2.7
Where and How do they Disagree?
3
Tests
3.1
Tested People versus Tested Samples
3.2
Interpolate Within Observed
3.3
Interplate Prior to Observed
3.4
Interpolate Subnationally
3.5
Explaining Variation in Testing
4
Common Measures of Interest
4.1
R0 and R
4.2
Case Fatality Rate (CFR)
4.3
Percent Positive
5
Deaths
6
Actual Infections
7
Conclusion
References
How to be Careful with Covid-19 Counts: A Practical Guide to Working with Pandemic Panel Data
Chapter 6
Actual Infections