<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Are these the days the deaths actually occur, or when the data reaches a central location? Many places don’t parse data on weekends, as office workers get weekends off.<div><br></div><div>The infection numbers in my area show a trend to drop Saturday, way down Sunday, pretty low Monday, way high on Tuesday. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jul 4, 2020, at 9:26 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is covid deaths per day from California:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><image003.jpg><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I see what looks like periodicity with fewer deaths (by a lot) on one or two days a week. Why would that be? It doesn’t look random to me. The data on new cases per day doesn’t show that pattern.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Very puzzlin’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>