"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
Lord Kelvin

Data Concealment and Mortality in Covid-19 Pandemic. An Illustrative Figure and a Hypothesis

Publications, Research Notes, Short Papers,

 

April 29, 2021

 

Public information provision by the government is essential to create trust in the government and government decisions, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic, when citizens’ compliance to the government measures is essential to curb the epidemy. On the other hand, the public information provided by the government supports that the government decisions on pandemic based on experts’ opinion, well-founded evidence, and analysis.

Therefore, it is worth analyzing how governments’ pandemic-related data communication policies and data collection, typically established in the first phase of the pandemic, relate to the subsequent severity of the pandemic in the given country.

Research Notes 2021:1