If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.
MSNBC new math students.
The irony is the 500 has ONE significant figure, therefore the answer cannot have more than one significant figure. The answer should be 2, most assuredly NOT 1.5290519. It doesn't matter how many digits his calculator can produce.
If Charlie is going to write a piece like this, at least get that right.
The Media boffins need to have the IRS tax ALL of their income, every year.
The “blindness” here was blind hatred. I simply can’t wrap my mind around the possibility of normal adults actually being this stupid. I assure you that all of my grade school classmates, from the slowest to the brightest would get this problem right, at least in order of magnitude, nearly 50 years ago.
It’s new math. When dealing with dollars you don’t cancel the million, you carry the million over. Modern Monetary Theory.
Even more astonishing is that this wasn’t sprung on them by a guest, with no time to think. It had been in Brian Williams mind for some hours, it had gone through the staff and they had prepared it for the show, and then brought up with the guest in a prepped conversation.
The woman with the original embarrassing posts (yes, she stepped in it again trying to defend herself) is a freelance writer who has written for the WaPo—though mostly soft news such as fashion and beauty stories.
The media is literally praying for mass death and a recession in order to beat Trump, they so hate America.
A missing point in the whole Williams/Gay fiasco is that Williams and Gay actually believe that a single rich man could make EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD in the US millionaires, by simply giving away just 3 percent of his wealth to them. In fact, the US government could confiscate ALL of his wealth, and it would not produce even a noticeable dent in the US spending debt.
Yes, the US media is really that much out of touch with reality!.