As someone who took Statistics in college with a textbook entitled "How to Lie With Statistics", these numbers could mean almost anything.
What determines a new case? Someone who has been tested and tests "positive for the virus? Are they asymptomatic or are they sick with symptoms? Are these people who have been hospitalized?
Are the deaths of people with Covid-19 when they die or deaths from Covid-19 itself as the primary cause?
None of these numbers mean anything unless the terms are defined.
Fair or not, MSM is running with it and using that statistic to blame Trump and get Biden in the White House.
I’m concerned that they’re putting folks in the hospital early....it’s a moneymaker for the hospitals.
There there is this:
Has Covid killed off the flu? Experts pose the intriguing question as influenza cases nosedive by 98% across the globe 10/24/2020, 9:01:53 PM · by captaincaveman · 54 replies The Daily Mail ^ | October 24, 2020 | Jo McFarlane In the Southern Hemisphere, where the flu season happens during our summer months, the WHO data suggests it never took off at all. In Australia, just 14 positive flu cases were recorded in April, compared with 367 during the same month in 2019 – a 96 per cent drop. By June, usually the peak of its flu season, there were none. In fact, Australia has not reported a positive case to the WHO since July. In Chile, just 12 cases of flu were detected between April and October. There were nearly 7,000 during the same period in 2019.