>"Deaths are up, but as another poster pointed out it's hardly statistically significant. The rolling 7 day average is 2.2/1m now, vs 1.7/1m on May 1st."
How is a 34% increase not statistically significant?
How is a 34% increase not statistically significant?
If one person in my town is murdered this year, and 2 are murdered next year, that's a 100% year over year increase in the homicide rate. But it's obviously a meaningless increase.
2.2 out of a million is a small number. More people in NC are dying every day from cancer or heart disease.
Because going from a daily death rate of 0.00017% to 0.00022% is still such a very small number, what might be called statistical noise.