A lot of individual things make data.
To only use some of those things does not make for accurate data.
To state that it impacts people of color would be true based on some data.
We know right now that rest homes are hot beds for Covid activity. How does that play into the data? How many of those worked or were residents in rest homes? Population density? Public transportation?
Many, many more points of data need to be collected before stating the “WHY” of it all.
Many, many more points of data need to be collected
Well said. I find it frustrating working with people who want to limit the quantity and variety of data when it is their job to collect and analyze the data. Of course, the other frustration is the quality of the data collected.
A professional assists a patient in filling out a form. The form asks: What County do you live in? The professional puts in the County that the Professional lives in and not the county that the patient lives in. Then we report statistics by county and make decisions based on that. And the bureaucracy does not seem to care.