Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
by Rury on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:49PM
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>Cases that get reported are biased towards people who get more sick
True, however I fail to see how this point is relevant when comparing statistics with past diseases - as the same could be said of our historical data we have for SARS or anything else. In any case, we only have reported confirmed cases. Doesn't seem to make sense to me to factor in a unknowable variable here but not in other cases...
True, however I fail to see how this point is relevant when comparing statistics with past diseases - as the same could be said of our historical data we have for SARS or anything else. In any case, we only have reported confirmed cases. Doesn't seem to make sense to me to factor in a unknowable variable here but not in other cases...