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Wow! The South Africa COVID-19 curve is flattening much quicker than other countries in lockdown. Can this be accurate? Or is the reported data incomplete? To view more COVID-19 charts, visit: corona-stats.co.za #southafrica #lockdown #covid19 #flattenthecurve

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Renaldo Rapheal Christians
Renaldo Rapheal Christians
Thanks for that info. To be honest there is low trust in the stats coming from SA. NZ has activated a large workforce to do the contact tracing of each positive test. I would be interested to know how a healthcare system ranked 119th out of 195 could so quickly and accurately test half million people.  We have daily public Q&A sessions with our Health Director General which includes the update on an evolving case definition for testing. The Government operates on high trust model here and although there are naturally sceptical the OECD research will support the notion that the NZ system was highly functioning and well funded which enabled a good response to the public. Would love to hear more of your thoughts Hugo.
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Johan Jansen van Rensburg - Asset Management Maintenance Professional
Johan Jansen van Rensburg - Asset Management Maintenance Professional
Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point. Statistically, with over 7bn people on the pale blue dot, how accurate will statistics be????? We will only know at the end, and then even.....
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