Total cases inconsistent with JHU report

[yuval-harpaz]

Total cases inconsistent with JHU report

[emmahodcroft]

Hi @yuval-harpaz - apologies for all the confusion here! The big difference here is that the JH data (and the OWID data) give daily numbers, but for CoVariants, we use a 2-week period (you can see what this is by mousing over a period on the plot). This should reconcile the numbers - if a place has 3000 cases a day, in CoVariants that would be 42,000 for the two-week period (and assuming it was sometimes higher than 3000, I imagine we hit matching numbers).

I hope this clarifies the discrepancy!

[yuval-harpaz]

yes, all clear now, thank you