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thesquanderer

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12. I've also posted about this...

Reply to Roland99 (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 08:11 PM

Apr 2020

... at https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213214523 and in the thread at https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213225036

Yes, it is scary. It's not as bad as those numbers imply because of how many cases are not counted AT ALL (whether because of inadequate testing, or people who get it and exhibit few if any symptoms and don't get treated), and that's going to skew the numbers up, but you're right, if you don't factor out all the cases that are yet to resolve one way or the other, you can have an artificially low percentage, especially when SO MANY of the diagnosed cases have been diagnosed so recently that it is way too soon to count them among "non fatal" cases, just because they haven't died yet.

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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