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Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by anhner on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:16AM (#22433407)
I don't understand your first argument. Surely increasing the denominator would lower the mortality percent?

Also does the total number of infected not include the dead?

Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by m3kw9 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:21AM (#22433458)
But the infected who isn’t dead may or may not die at the end. So using infected as the denominator is not accurate. But using just the recovered as denim Arie is also incorrect unless you have enough samples. Using China’s figures are wildly inaccurate because of lack of tests and transparency. So maybe a better complex model can be derived from current datas
Re:Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths by nik_s on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:18AM (#22433424)
Indeed, you are right - I corrected the formulas.