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Anyone with basic stats training could do the computation. Recognizing what (if anything) it means may be significantly harder. Recognizing that what Teejers wants is just "interesting" but some other set of data is actually very enlightening is harder still. This type of analysis needs to be done, and based on Dr. Morrow's comments, it isn't (at least several months ago). Granted, some academic institution may publish something really great eventually, or not. The State gets all the data. Nobody else does AFAIK. The State should at least be trying to tease out any meaning it may have.

It is the doctors and the county health departments that interact with the patients at this point.  The state only has access to the data doctors and county health departments gather.  If nobody asks the patients about, say, eyeglass usage, vitamin supplements, school attendance, mask usage, or whether cases ate at restaurants, the data isn't there to process.

Unfortunately, the county health departments are oversubscribed just trying to get people to test & quarantine.

Among the feedback I've given to my county supervisor is that I'm frustrated that with thousands of cases, the county is not revealing characteristics of those that get infected.  It would be easy for the county to gather information with surveys of a week's worth of cases (N > 500) to give insight onto many potential lifestyle features that may help other citizens to know what activities may be associated with avoiding or risking infection.   Virtually all they are revealing is aggregate gender, age, and zip code.

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Anyone with basic stats training could do the computation. Recognizing what (if anything) it means may be significantly harder. Recognizing that what Teejers wants is just "interesting" but some other set of data is actually very enlightening is harder still. This type of analysis needs to be done, and based on Dr. Morrow's comments, it isn't (at least several months ago). Granted, some academic institution may publish something really great eventually, or not. The State gets all the data. Nobody else does AFAIK. The State should at least be trying to tease out any meaning it may have.

It is the doctors and the county health departments that interact with the patients at this point.  The state only has access to the data doctors and county health departments gather.  If nobody asks the patients about, say, eyeglass usage, vitamin supplements, school attendance, mask usage, or whether cases ate at restaurants, the data isn't there to process.

Unfortunately, the county health departments are oversubscribed just trying to get people to test & quarantine.

Among the feedback I've given to my county supervisor is that I'm frustrated that with thousands of cases, the county is not revealing characteristics of those that get infected.  It would be easy for the county to gather information with surveys of a week's worth of cases (N > 500) to give insight onto many potential lifestyle features that may help other citizens to know what activities may be associated with avoiding or risking infection.   Virtually all they are revealing is aggregate gender, age, and zip code.