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"early data" its 18 days in, dont we have computers that can do math this fast yet?
You'd think, just ask the Banking industry why it takes days to process transactions or why they have to continue to do it in "nightly batches" in 2024
Answer: Upgrading ancient mainframes and software written on COBOL or FORTRAN to something modern and capable of handling things in realtime would cost too much :/
I bet it is not the data crunching, but the gathering. Something about not centralizing data continually during the year and then there is slow reporting in once a year.
Oh, that's fair I guess.
Wtf happened leading up to 1980?
https://medium.com/@tgof137/explaining-the-crime-wave-of-the-1980s-d98395133dfc
It sounds like the big hitter is the way we handled drugs.