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Re:Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak ... by gdubs on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:22PM (#22291084)
I’m totally out of my element here but I’d wager that because the flu is much more pervasive we’re able to extract more reliable statistics, even if it’s from a relatively small sample set.
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Re:Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak ... by raducu on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:00PM (#22293266)
I'm no statistics expert, but given they can predict election outcomes from samples of a couple thousand people for tens of milions of voters, 40k+ infected with coronavirus is enough to have a very good idea about death rates.
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