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10 points·theojulienne··4 comments

I'm confused why everything keeps reporting mortality rate as (#deaths / #confirmed_cases). People are confirmed cases for a while before the outcome is known. Shouldn't it be (#deaths / (#deaths + #recovered))? I mean, that would imply the mortality rate is around 13%, which would be awful, but the math makes more sense to me. Are the values for #recovered so suspect that they aren't worth using at all?

Whoa, so the US is rising faster than any other country is or has risen? Am I reading that "Top 10 countries by confirmed cases (from point of over 100 cases)" graph correctly?

Yes. One of the reasons could be that US for a while practically didn't have tests, after deciding to not use what the rest of the world already had:

https://www.businessinsider.com/early-coronavirus-cdc-tests-...

but also the US president tweeting just two weeks ago, March 9:

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"

and day later said:

"And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-th...

If it makes you feel better (it shouldn't), in the UK the politicians hoped in "herd immunity" to magically solve their problems:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...

Such a negligence.

logarithmically? please

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