Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium
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Why quote the pages in Flemish here?
The quoted pages on www.info-coronavirus.be are available in Netherlands, French and English. As this pages is intended for native English speakers, the politeness would be to quote pages in that language when they are available. For example, https://www.info-coronavirus.be/en/news is better here than https://www.info-coronavirus.be/nl/news/ even if there is a delay for the English version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rpilotte (talk • contribs) 11:31, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
- Feel free and adapt it in this way. And by the way: the quotes are in Dutch, not in Flemish. And "Netherlands" doesn't not exist as a languange. --Tfa1964 (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
- Only the Dutch and French version of this government site are regularly updated, whereas the English and German part only get sporadic updates, and not all articles are translated (e.g. look at the site, as of time of writing, the English and German part say nothing about the 3 deaths, whereas the Dutch and French version do). Therefore, quoting the site in Dutch and French would be better in my opinion. I get what you mean with this, but knowing how relevant information, especially for this pandemic, comes in fast, it's a necessary evil to keep the page updated to it's fullest extent Kef274 (talk) 07:34, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
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) 17:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Wrong graph of deaths?
According to these sources: COVID-19 - EPIDEMIOLOGISCH BULLETIN NL and COVID-19 - BULLETIN EPIDEMIOLOGIQUE FR the graph 'Confirmed deaths per day in Belgium' is not correct. What is the cause? Where the reported statistics in the past wrong and is this corrected by governement afterwards? Or what is the source of the current graph? --PJ Geest (talk) 09:19, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
I agree and I have verified the numbers on the archived copies of the official bulletin in french and in dutch, as well as the press conferences now added daily on youtube, and corrected the counts accordingly. However it feels like we have too many redundant copies of the same numbers, I had to correct 3 tables/charts. --Redturnips (talk) 16:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Raw data IC patients
Concerning these two sources: COVID-19 - EPIDEMIOLOGISCH BULLETIN NL [1] COVID-19 - BULLETIN EPIDEMIOLOGIQUE FR [2].
I would like to have the raw numbers on the first graph on page 3. I would also like to now if the IC numbers are the amount of current IC cases. I.e. if they are corrected for people who got out of IC.
Using this data I want to construct two graphs: - Amount of current patients in IC per day. I believe this is a better reflection of the current hit our healthcare system is taking. - Amount of new patients in IC per day. I believe this is a better reflection of the total amount of people infected. As you would expect a certain percentage of people infected to be hit hard enough to be held in IC.
I believe these two graphs would be better indicators than the amount of confirmed cases, as these numbers highly depend on how much and whom the government is testing.
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