The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 32835309.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100066 and PMC identifier 7296309.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
In data science, there's long been an acknowledgment of the way data can flatten and dehumanize the people they represent. This limitation becomes most obvious when considering the pure inability of such numbers and figures to truly capture the reality of lives lost in this pandemic.