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The Misleading Arithmetic of COVID-19 Death Rates
Cato ^ | 3.2.2020 | Alan Reynolds

Posted on 03/10/2020 3:12:54 AM PDT by narses

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1 posted on 03/10/2020 3:12:54 AM PDT by narses
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Yet the numbers seem to be spiking up.


2 posted on 03/10/2020 3:27:21 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: narses

Still Trump’s fault. We need Truth rather than Facts.


3 posted on 03/10/2020 3:27:26 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Biggirl

Coronavirus hype is deliberate as well as purely political. This is the nothingburger of the century!!


4 posted on 03/10/2020 3:38:35 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: narses

If you take all who have died from corona, add that to those who have died from regular flu...

...is it the worst “flu season” ever?

I’m guessing: No.


5 posted on 03/10/2020 3:50:32 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: narses

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The mathematics of statistics is only as good as the data collection. If there is incomplete data, either by not knowing what to look for, or deliberate exclusion, the computations are skewed and do not reflect reality.

Science, if practiced as it was intended to be, is NEVER settled. The collation of data is a primary tool in the building of scientific principles. Intellectual honesty is an absolute requisite. And even then, factors poorly understood get overlooked.


6 posted on 03/10/2020 3:54:43 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: Biggirl

What numbers? Deaths? Or deaths per day? The total number will always get bigger, but the number of new deaths per day is trending down.


7 posted on 03/10/2020 4:08:57 AM PDT by narses (Censeo praedatorium gregem esse delendum. (The gay lobby must be destroyed))
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To: narses

To put it into perspective, hospitals in Wuhan were overwhelmed with critically ill COVID-19 patients (that’s probably still the case) and it appears that is now happening in Italy.


8 posted on 03/10/2020 4:14:10 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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To: narses

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9 posted on 03/10/2020 4:25:43 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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...and yet, that is NOT happening in Germany, France, and Spain.

Based on the ratio of cases to population, Italy looks more like an emerging market than a developed country.

10 posted on 03/10/2020 5:02:16 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: narses

The average age of person's dieing from corona virus is 80

Quote from the VP/Task Force

11 posted on 03/10/2020 5:04:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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The average age of person's dieing from corona virus is 80

Quote from the VP/Task Force

12 posted on 03/10/2020 5:04:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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Gee, I wonder what the average age is of someone dying from the regular-run-of-the-mill flu that kills tens of thousands of people every year? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm


13 posted on 03/10/2020 5:06:25 AM PDT by 3boysdad (.)
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gee i wonder what the average age of anyone dying is?

life expectancy?


14 posted on 03/10/2020 5:09:37 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: 3boysdad

-——I wonder what the average age is of someone dying from the regular-run-of-the-mill flu——

A more meaningful number would be what percentage of those who have the flu and die actually have pneumonia.

Ditto the corona virus


15 posted on 03/10/2020 5:10:41 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: DoodleBob

I wonder if Italy has a lot of tourism during the winter months - something I don’t expect to be the case in Germany.


16 posted on 03/10/2020 5:11:05 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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To: narses

I am personally more frightened by the mathematical ignorance in this country than by the germs.


17 posted on 03/10/2020 5:48:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Now they are saying the death rate is closer to 1% (mostly infirm elderly) once we dilute the number with more tests.


18 posted on 03/10/2020 5:50:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Biggirl

False

Here is the up to the minute data

116,000 cases world wide. 105,000 mild or recovered.

4089 deaths

Average age of the dead, 80 years old.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


19 posted on 03/10/2020 6:30:44 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Prolixus

False

Here is the up to the minute data

116,000 cases world wide. 105,000 mild or recovered.

4089 deaths

Average age of the dead, 80 years old.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


20 posted on 03/10/2020 6:31:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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