Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania

WikiProject COVID-19
I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:50, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Needed Perspective Re Commonweath Population, Past Flu Seasons, Etc
To create perspective instead of just listing case numbers, one would need to say what the population of the Commonwealth is, what the mortality rates were calculated to be during past flu seaons, and then weigh that against the economic destruction in an effort to discuss the pros and cons of the drastic societal lockdown.

Hippocrates, in the aptly titled Of the Epidemics, said "First do no harm." By intentionally crushing our economy, we have done harm first but done so to preserve life and protect public health. The pros and cons need to be discussed in a calm, rational manner because a chain of human misery follows such massive unemployment and this misery flows in the form of bankruptcy, foreclosure, depression, anxiety, alcoholism, drug abuse, divorce, etc.

Thus far, the article has essentially an alarmist tone by just listing numbers, but not injecting the context of past flu mortality rates.

Also, the CDC has been conflating pneumonia deaths and flu deaths in recent years, and whether that is statistically proper needs calm evaluation because such issues will affect how this novel coronavirus is evaluated in future years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.152.216.213 (talk) 14:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

County Map
Should we talk about changing the map in the sidebar to e.g. confirmed cases per capita soon, since almost every county has a confirmed case? InitHello (talk) 20:11, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I think this would be a good idea. I'm thinking of making a script to simplify the process of doing that this afternoon Jokullmusic 18:26, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I've gotten a script together and will put up the new map once today's numbers are released. Jokullmusic 15:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

County Progression Data
I've been collecting data of the Coronavirus cases for PA Counties as of March 12 for progression analysis and I'm wondering if you believe this data to be useful for this space. I'm new to Wiki so I'd require a bit of guidance but I'd be glad to share the data.

The data have been gathered through the health.pa.gov site. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qz3WbqHYxuUCxfAAQ1HQQ076WL6_bB_bxv0sZqHtC-s/edit?usp=sharing

Gregorytapler (talk) 20:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Too Many Counties
You Show 2 Carbon Counties and 2 Warren Counties — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.253.140 (talk) 20:50, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Cases/100,000 in the last 14 days
Considering the governor’s announcement that once a county moves under 50 cases per 100,000 people in the last 14 days, some restrictions will be lifted, could we add cases per 100,000 people in the last 14 days in the statistics table? The announcement should probably also be added to the timeline Thekplan99 (talk) 00:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Page out of date??
A questioner at WP:TH has just commented (see here) that this page's stats are very out of date. They wrote:


 * "Coronavirus stats stopped updating for my county. Why? It has been over a week and Erie county Pennsylvania still says 210 when it’s really 307... in this crazy time of people going back to work, why are you giving false stats?? If you can’t manage all updates, please remove stats.
 * Link to Wikipedia showing Erie PA with 210: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Pennsylvania
 * Link to more reputable source with correct number of cases: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/pennsylvania/
 * I own a small business and have been relying on your data to go back to work. Please fix this or take it down."

Whilst we have explained that all Wikipedia pages are updated on a volunteer basis (and shouldn't be used as a basis for making business/health decisions) I thought I'd just pop over and alert anyone here, lest they're interested to address these concerns. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 14:19, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Graphs
I added a graphs section for new cases and new deaths. The graphs take the data from PA medical cases chart and subtract the previous day. to come up with daily deaths. I want to note that this produces a significantly different result in daily deaths than PA's GIS site. This should probably be fixed in both the graphs and the medical chart template. gren グレン 22:03, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Impact on Education
In light of the recent guidelines issued by the state for K-12 education in academic year 20-21, I think we should add a section for that and possibly an additional section titled "Impact on Higher Education". I'm in a Wikipedia class and will write these sections in my sandbox and hopefully figure out how to update it in the next session.SandwichProf (talk) 04:32, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

I dare you. Call the police when you see people out and about without a mask. See how that goes for you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.146.174 (talk) 03:25, 16 January 2021 (UTC)