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#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data

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Is There a Problem With COVID Estimates?

I think some of the institutions that have been struggling with criticism of their methods and I think that the global bit enough disease studies particularly in that situation. It also relates to the kind of time frame that these institutions are working on, like if something goes wrong during an update then it's gonna be there for another two years. We just found out yesterday a small problem with one of the population estimates for like the tiny territory of St Martin that belongs to the Netherlands. There's a big problem in the estimates where they're basically showing that on the entire island no one is aged what no one is in their thirties.

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