To: Black Agnes
There are numerous possible reasons for the different mortality rates, but I wonder how much reporting/recording issues affect the stats there.
964 posted on
08/22/2014 3:17:46 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Well, Liberia did have a bunch of people who tested positive, so were included in the ‘cases’, but were sent home because there wasn’t room to treat them. So they were recorded as ‘cases’ but if they died and were buried by their families weren’t recorded subsequently as ‘deaths’.
That sort of thing may be affecting the ratio of mortality and morbidity.
To: Smokin' Joe
There are numerous possible reasons for the different mortality rates, but I wonder how much reporting/recording issues affect the stats there.
I looked at the numbers and I don't like the case mortality ratio. As the pandemic increases the ratio of infection to deaths goes down. Conversely, as the pandemic plateaus or drops, the ratio of deaths goes up. The only value I see with the ratio is an indicator of an increasing or decreasing pandemic.
979 posted on
08/22/2014 5:40:57 PM PDT by
PA Engineer
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To: Smokin' Joe
995 posted on
08/23/2014 8:46:26 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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