Health
What to keep in mind when you look at Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers – The Sydney Morning Herald
Victorians watch for daily coronavirus numbers like we used to check the weather forecast. Here’s how to read the figures and navigate the rollercoaster graphs.
The change in case numbers
If there is one thing that Victorians have learned about the shifts in daily coronavirus numbers over the past couple of weeks, it’s that there isn’t much of a pattern to the daily data.
The numbers have gone up, then they have gone down, then they have gone up again, and then up again. Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton last week likened the fluctuations to a rollercoaster.
That’s why we started showing seven-day average to our daily new cases graph as it…
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