I am sick and tired of seeing only what journalists have managed to pull out from random published reports – especially when that consists of summary statistics based just on numbers by nation. But even when someone has the wit to give us numbers per million I would prefer to be able to choose my own list of countries and/or look at other data than mere reported infection rates.
What I really want is an easy link to a complete database of all confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses including fields for:
- date of first suspected diagnosis,
- date of confirmed diagnosis,
- estimated time from infection to suspected diagnosis (based eg on severity of symptoms at time of diagnosis)
- political jurisdiction (as closely as possible),
- employment exposure level (medical worker, other public-facing service, non-public-facing worker, other, none)
- possible source from infected contact (family, workplace contact. medical workplace contact, known community, known traveller, unknown)
- severity (asymptomatic, non-hosp flu-like, hospitalized, ICU, fatal)
- outcome (recovery, death)
- date of outcome determination
Why isn’t such a thing easily available to whomever wants to study it?
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