None of these people hyping surges knows what a "7 day moving average" is. There is a sawtooth pattern to almost every cases graph I have seen due to the weekly testing pattern. A moving average would smooth it out.
They will hype a day in a state where "cases jumped 50%" and you go look at the stats and they are talking about going from 150 to 225 in the course of the normal weekly pattern and it will be in a state of several million residents.
None of these people hyping surges knows what a "7 day moving average" is. There is a sawtooth pattern to almost every cases graph I have seen due to the weekly testing pattern. A moving average would smooth it out.
They will hype a day in a state where "cases jumped 50%" and you go look at the stats and they are talking about going from 150 to 225 in the course of the normal weekly pattern and it will be in a state of several million residents.
"Cases jumped 100% between Tuesday and Wednesday! SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!!"
(then on the back of page 87 in the same publication and in 5 point font..."Nobody was tested on Tuesday").
In many states, the number of reported "new cases" is lower than the amount of total counties.