It's easy to report the number of people who test positive (even though some people confuse number of people with number of positive tests)
It's easy to report the number of covid-19-related deaths (even though a lot of people don't distinquish between covid-19 causing the death and merely having covid-19 at time of death)
But there doesn't seem to be a particularly robust, well-defined, proceess for collecting/reporting information related to the number of people who have recovered.
World-o-meter referenced this source (
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ERD/Pages/OHA-changes-recovered-cases-reporting.aspx). This highlights the problem with no meaningful information wrt the number of people that are recovered.
Another problem with the data relates to the age of people with active infections. Good luck getting a good handle of that...
COVID-19 is more serious for someone who is 80 versus someone who is 18 (kind of like with just about
any infection)