covid19india / covid19india-react

Tracking the impact of COVID-19 in India
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Add documentation what counts as a case and what as a death #2446

Closed surfmuggle closed 3 years ago

surfmuggle commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It is unclear to me how cases (active infections, deaths) are determined. On https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ i could not find details about that

Describe the solution you'd like If possible document what counts as a case. For example a case is every person with a confirmed positive rtPCR-test result or someone who has antibodies. Some countries also count a close contact to a confirmed case as a case.

Describe alternatives you've considered This information could be added to the readme or as a wiki page in this repository

Additional context New Zealand mid term testing strategy contains this

My understanding is that in new zealand a positive PCR test is reviewed by trying to find the whole virus. If this fails the positive test result is classified as a false positive. As you probably know the positive predictive value of a PCR test depends on its sensitivity, specificity and the prevalence. These parameters determine how many false positive occur. On top of that a PCR test can be positive up to 82 days following recovery

ravi-maithrey commented 3 years ago

What i can see is the mohfw itself isnt releasing too many details. before we classify anything, we need further info on how these are being classified at the source