this is incredibly annoying b/c by mid march we almost certainly had a million cases

the case count is not a representation of reality but a complicated confluence of case surges & testing capacity https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1286494655161536513">https://twitter.com/CNN/statu...
Michigan is a great example of how early case counts didn& #39;t accurately measure the situation.

If you look at cases only, you& #39;d think that Iowa and Illinois had much worse infections that Michigan did /2
But that clearly is not the case.

What happened was that we had no testing in the early weeks of this crisis so, if we& #39;re only looking at cases, we complete missed the fact that Michigan got hit much harder than any midwest state
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