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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: nudephil on 30/07/2020 17:42:31

Title: Why is there a 5-day oscillation in the COVID-19 newly confirmed cases?
Post by: nudephil on 30/07/2020 17:42:31

Edwina asks:

Why is there a prominent 5-day oscillation in the COVID-19 daily newly confirmed cases, globally and locally?

Can anyone answer?

Title: Re: Why is there a 5-day oscillation in the COVID-19 newly confirmed cases?
Post by: Bored chemist on 30/07/2020 18:22:01

Does Edwina mean 7 day?

Title: Re: Why is there a 5-day oscillation in the COVID-19 newly confirmed cases?
Post by: Edwina Lee on 31/07/2020 08:40:19

Unfortnately, my eyes were wrong. It is indeed 7 days.

Title: Re: Why is there a 5-day oscillation in the COVID-19 newly confirmed cases?
Post by: Bored chemist on 31/07/2020 10:33:28

It's almost certainly an artifact of the day of the week.
Something like "nobody reports stuff at the weekend- they leave it until Monday- and it  then takes two days to be officially registered" or something.