Differentiating cases from PCR and Rapid tests about covid19

[eguidotti]

Hi @M3IT, thanks for your message!
Yes, I have been thinking about that some time ago... it's not an easy question. The problem is that different countries are counting confirmed cases differently. Some of them use only PCR confirmed cases, other countries use both PCR and RAT, other again started with PCR only and then included RAT...

For this project I'm using the following convention (hope it makes sense!).
The goal is to have confirmation rates (confirmed/tests) homogeneous across countries. So if a country uses PCR confirmed cases, I report only the number of PCR for the tests. If a country uses both PCR and RAT confirmed cases, I report the sum of the two in the tests. Of course, there are countries that do not specify which tests are taken into account and/or do not provide data differentiating between PCR and RAT. So I'm forced to take the numbers they provide and put them in the tests.

So if Australia is providing PCR confirmed cases, then only PCR tests should be in tests

[eguidotti]

It seems this is fixed