I should have downloaded the COVID-19 testing statistics a while back. 👾

If you ever want to see the effects of poorly randomized data, this is it. Counties with more testing upstate generally have lower rates per capita. The data suggests that Albany County for example has as similar COVID-19 rate per capita as Clinton, Essex and Hamilton County but much fewer people as a percentage of the population in those counties have been tested in those counties, so they’re sampling sicker individuals most likely.

I think it would be helpful if the state started doing COVID-19 testing doing jury duty style supeonas to random people. Got to sample the population truly randomly, can’t only be selecting those who think they have been exposed to have COVID-19. Maybe that’s draconian but it would be good for statistics.

Play with the data on data.ny.gov, join it against census data for per capita counts.