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former9thward

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10. You are right, but our data points on other diseases are flawed also.

Reply to beachbumbob (Reply #9)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 11:30 AM

Apr 2020

We only know about cancer cases when the symptoms get back enough that someone goes to a doctor to check them out. If we tested all people we might find millions with some form of cancer at some early stage. With ordinary flu we only know those cases when people go to the doctor. How many millions, or tens of millions of cases, are out there that never get reported? We don't and can't know.

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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