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# It’s an Internet Graph, it Must be True
- URL: https://goodoil.news/its-an-internet-graph-it-must-be-true/
- Published: 2020-04-10T04:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-09T06:32:42.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: COVID-19, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The *Financial Times* has a bunch of COVID-19 graphs in an [article](https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest?ref=goodoil.news). Here is one.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ft_covid_graph_the_bfd.jpg)

The BFD

Note the blue, ‘Washington state’, now recording 50 daily deaths.

What does the Washington state government [site say](https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus?ref=goodoil.news)?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/wa_covid_graph_the_bfd.jpg)

The BFD

Well, that is curious. Washington state has never had a daily death count above 20\. Is the data FT is relying on coming from a dodgy source?

How are the model predictions going? When will Washington state expect the peak number of deaths? Maybe 50 is just around the corner? Here is the answer from an [article](https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/coronavirus-peak-apex-statebystate/2020/04/07/id/961754/?ref=goodoil.news) titled ‘*Pandemic’s Peak – Here’s The Date for Your State*‘.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/wa_peak_death_the_bfd.jpg)

The BFD

Well, that’s encouraging; the peak has passed. The worst day, according to the models was 27 March.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/wa_model.png)

The BFD

Oops! In true climate science reporting-speak, “The lowest since records began.”

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