Interpretation of Confirmed Global Cases Time Series

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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE

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Interpretation of Confirmed Global Cases Time Series #1628

Open drikjyotsinghk opened 4 years ago

drikjyotsinghk commented 4 years ago

Hi.

I just want to make sure that I am understanding the Time Series numbers correctly: For example, for the US, it says: on March 24: 53740 cases, March 25: 65778 cases.

Is this saying you will have 65778 cases in TOTAL by March 25, or you will have 65778 NEW cases on March 25?

Thank you.

skymoore commented 4 years ago

I believe it's this: There were 53740 confirmed cases reported as of March 24th. There were 65778 confirmed cases reported as of March 25th.

akilelkamel commented 4 years ago

Hi drikjyotsinghk,

It's cumulative sum, which means that each day they put the total of yesterday's cases + number of new cases. As the same example that you posted: For US:

53740 confirmed cases reported as of March 24th.
65778 confirmed cases reported as of March 25th. Which means the 12038 new cases discovered on March 25th and so on.