Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
by qaq on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:07AM
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Well unfortunately US has much higher rate of obesity, diabetes and other factors that will increase mortality so would be pretty hard.
Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
by vinniejames on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:11AM
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China has a much higher rate of smokers, poor air quality, and existing respiratory disease.
Do you have any statistics pointing to obesity as an increased risk factor for a respritory disease?
Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
by qaq on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:21AM
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High Blood pressure was a big factor from what I read. There is very strong correlation between obesity and hypertension.
Re:The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
by fragmede on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:02PM
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Each country has it's own date for when "testing came online", and it seems like starting from then might make things more comparable, despite differences in testing capacity and strategy. Another approach might be to on start looking at the data after the number of cases is > 100.
Take numbers from a region where testing is frequent, say the death rate is 2%. Then scale the numbers in a region with lack of testing to match the 2% death rate.
Not perfect, as there are external factors like hospital capacity/quality and existing population health.
However, it should give a closer approximation of total cases where politicians fail to provide adequate testing.