Data
I have been monitoring the website floridadisaster. I like it because it drills down and provides demographics by county. You can see if the person affected was male or female, their age, if they traveled, etc. Because I have lots of time on my hands I decided to plot the number of new cases each day for Sumter, Marion, and Lady Lake counties as well as The Villages on a graph to see if there was a pattern or any “curve”. Interestingly, I found no trends or even a curve. The number of reported cases each day appears to go up and down randomly. Overall though, the number of reported cases each day in The Villages appeared to be the most consistent with the least variation. Likewise, with the exception of a few days of high activity since tracking this, the number of new cases in The Villages is relatively low (less than 5 per day and lately only 1-2 per day). In comparison, Sumter county had a huge spike most recently of 22 cases in a single day, all men, avg. age 55. So, I found this data interesting and of course I realize the data on this website may have many errors, but it does provide a point of reference. So, if you are interested in statistics like me, you can go to this website and check out the data, and perhaps you will see what I do... measures you are taking in The Villages appear to be working as the number of new cases each day remains relatively low. You are all doing a great job!!
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