Rapidly headed toward this. Both via data manipulation and often just good old fashioned human error in all of it.
Why anybody would have expected the entire thing to be riddled with mass human error on a worldwide scale as large as the pandemic itself, considering we all KNOW how that works in everything else in life... boggles me.
It’s becoming easy to take ANY data set other than the Doc notes per patient individually and find omission, methodology, math, or other common errors in all of them now. And we ALL know even the Docs make errors in the source material.
Well at least I assume we all do. Nobody’s read their medical record and said, “That’s not even the symptom I talked to him/her about! I wonder if their transcription service clicked on the wrong patient.” LOL.
Nobody’s going to have this story “right” even a decade from now.