the Coronavirus outbreak thread

[Star Ferry]

Originally Posted by 77T

I agree - I’m not debating. You said you have knowledge of Singapore and Malaysia numbers from those country’s official sources. I think that would be the best source.

I can only state what that other data aggregator states in their own website. What I have suggested is that by checking this, one can see how their data is represented.

https://www.worldometers.info/faq/

They're using algorithms for the real-time counters, like those on the front page of the website, which are constantly changing, e.g. with "Public Healthcare Expenditure Today" they took a real annual figure and then assumed a constant, even spend over the year.

Whereas the coronavirus counter appears to be recently added, updated periodically, and not driven by an algorithm.