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Roland99

(53,342 posts) Sun Apr 5, 2020, 08:42 AM Apr 2020

Why is the Covid-19 fatality rate calculated based on no of total cases, not resolved cases? [View all]

According to this site:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

There are about 8500 deaths and about 15,000 recovered

That means of the 311k total cases, only 23,500 have come to a conclusion. And of those, well over 1/3 has resulted in death vs recovery

That. Seems. VERY. Scary.

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Why is the Covid-19 fatality rate calculated based on no of total cases, not resolved cases? [View all] Roland99 Apr 2020 OP

slice it how you want Blues Heron Apr 2020 #1

I would guess genxlib Apr 2020 #2

That would give an entirely false (and unnecessarily frightening) impression of the virus FBaggins Apr 2020 #3

the ONLY valid metric is the number of deaths per million in population as there IS NO WAY beachbumbob Apr 2020 #4

THis is the correct answer obamanut2012 Apr 2020 #5

That is how the death rare for any disease is calculated. former9thward Apr 2020 #6

the death rate of any disease is based on known cases vs known deaths. Perhaps in 1 to 2 years we beachbumbob Apr 2020 #7

Well you can say that about any disease. former9thward Apr 2020 #8

this applies to ALL diseases. YOu have a data set of knowns in a time period. With this virus we beachbumbob Apr 2020 #9

You are right, but our data points on other diseases are flawed also. former9thward Apr 2020 #10

Because resolved numbers lag far behind Azathoth Apr 2020 #11

I've also posted about this... thesquanderer Apr 2020 #12