Trying to make sense of Western Australia's Omicron wave can feel like an impossible task, with so many different metrics and statistics being thrown around.
It is pretty clear the state's experience is far different from almost anywhere in the world, but just how differently are we faring?
And what could lie ahead, as the state makes its way through the peak of infections?
Here are the charts that will help you understand everything that is going on.
WA's case numbers probably haven't peaked yet
Over the last five days, daily infections have fluctuated between 3,602 on Sunday and a record 5,377 yesterday.
The numbers have been going up and down, but it does not seem like infections have peaked yet.
Looking at the seven-day average for new cases – a metric preferred by health experts because it smooths out day-to-day variances – it shows new infections are likely still on their way up.
The positivity rate of PCR tests also suggests infections are still climbing, even if daily case numbers do not reflect it.
But when fewer people get tested, it also shows more than that, according to epidemiologist Catherine Bennett.
"It means even though less people are being tested, the ones who really should be getting tested, the ones who turn out to be positive, are there in greater numbers," she said.
Last Tuesday, 11.6 per cent of PCR tests were coming back positive across a seven-day average.
Yesterday, that figure had jumped to 16.6 per cent.
"Getting to 20 per cent is what happens as you start to get more infections spreading in the community, but it still looks well controlled [in WA]," Professor Bennet said.
In Victoria those numbers climbed as high as 35 per cent, and in New South Wales it reached 40 per cent, she said.
Cases rising more slowly in WA than they did in SA
Over the last few months, plenty of parallels have been drawn between WA and South Australia, in how they have handled the pandemic.
But a key difference has been the vaccination rates of each state's population as cases rose.
In SA, just under 80 per cent of its population was double-vaccinated and very few people were triple-dosed when the first cases were recorded.
WA now has double-dose rates above 95 per cent, and almost three-quarters of people aged 16 and over have received their booster shots.
Looking at the number of new infections per 1,000 people in the days since each state recorded more than 100 new cases gives an idea of how much difference vaccination can make.
Generally, WA's outbreak has grown more slowly than South Australia's, taking into account differences in population size, although WA is now recording more new cases each day per 1,000 people than SA did at a similar time.
Hospitalisations have also lagged behind. It took until five days after the 100-case mark for SA to have more than 10 people in hospital, but in WA, it took nine.
ICU admissions paint a different story again, with 15 days between 100 new cases and double-digit numbers of ICU patients in SA, while WA is yet to even reach that mark 27 days on.
How much of this is down to vaccination rates alone is difficult to say, but experts agree high booster dose rates are keeping many West Australians from getting as sick as they would have otherwise.
PCR testing numbers follow predictable pattern each week
At the start of each week, it might be tempting to breathe a sigh of relief as case numbers appear to drop, or at least plateau.
But that seems to be down to fewer people getting tested more than anything else.
Looking at average testing numbers, people are most likely to get a PCR on a Monday or Tuesday, with testing lowest on Saturday and Sunday.
In part, that's down to many testing centres either being closed, or having significantly reduced hours over weekends.
Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said yesterday it meant after a few days of case numbers plateauing, new infections could potentially double over the next few days.
Of course, it's impossible to get the full picture of these patterns because we don't know when people take rapid antigen tests at home.
The virus is spreading more quickly in the regions
In the last week, the number of active cases has grown by 80 per cent in the metropolitan area.
But in the state's Kimberley region, it has grown 1,767 per cent, from nine active cases to 168.
That could cause problems, given the region has the third-lowest double-dose vaccination rate in the state at 82 per cent, and many are not protected by a booster dose.
The virus is also spreading quickly in the Great Southern, which has jumped from 30 active cases last week to 187 yesterday.
How does this compare to the modelling?
Frustratingly, we do not really know.
The government has refused to release much more than a five-page outline of its modelling, which provides some detail, but not everything we need to see how the state is tracking.
"I'm pretty comfortable with the modelling that we've released," Ms Sanderson said yesterday when asked about releasing more information.
"I don't think releasing large volumes of data is necessarily helpful to our planning and our approach.
It is an issue both the opposition and the head of the Australian Medical Association's WA branch have flagged.
"No one else can make comment, which is part of the power game of the government, because knowledge is power, and they're the only ones with the knowledge and actually access to the modelling," Mark Duncan-Smith said last week.
Only time will tell if WA really is tracking along as expected.
