Data Scientists know how crucial is to master data set and data structures in order to perform any required analysis. There is no difference in dealing with COVID-19 pandemic. Data set, data formation and data structures are being created and will constitute the base of the pandemic analysis. The reliability of the results though will strictly depend on the reliability and consistency of the data collected. I personally fear that, unless data consistency is guaranteed among different countries and territories, sample hypothesis testing results will not be reliable enough and we will have no choice rather than performing statistical analysis on the entire population data set, as soon as statistical official data on well tested classifications (unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic) are compiled.
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