Whoa, so the US is rising faster than any other country is or has risen? Am I reading that "Top 10 countries by confirmed cases (from point of over 100 cases)" graph correctly?
but also the US president tweeting just two weeks ago, March 9:
"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"
and day later said:
"And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
I'm confused why everything keeps reporting mortality rate as (#deaths / #confirmed_cases). People are confirmed cases for a while before the outcome is known. Shouldn't it be
(#deaths / (#deaths + #recovered))? I mean, that would imply the mortality rate is around 13%, which would be awful, but the math makes more sense to me. Are the values for #recovered so suspect that they aren't worth using at all?
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but also the US president tweeting just two weeks ago, March 9:
"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!"
and day later said:
"And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statements-about-th...
If it makes you feel better (it shouldn't), in the UK the politicians hoped in "herd immunity" to magically solve their problems:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...
Such a negligence.