EP 54: Crunching COVID-19 numbers

A group of Filipino experts crunching COVID-19 numbers since last year is now under fire for allegedly coming out with “alarmist” projections based on “incomplete and erroneous data.”

In fact, a group of congressmen has filed a resolution seeking an investigation into the OCTA research group.

The resolution also cited criticism of OCTA coming from Dr. Edsel Salvaña,member of health department’s technical advisory group.

But Salvaña himself has been criticized online or consistently defending the government’s handling of the pandemic despite glaring missteps and inefficiencies.

In the case of OCTA, the group is now being targeted not for its questionable stats and projections but for telling the ugly truth about the country’s COVID-19 numbers?