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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by dwild on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:48PM (#22697820)
> In fact in Vo it was zero.

Isn't it a bit disingenuous to use a city with 89 cases as being statistically significant?

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by thu2111 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:17PM (#22698541)
Vo has 3000 inhabitants, it's not a city, that's why they could completely isolate it and test every single inhabitant. It gives a 'random' sample, unlike other testing regimens.

The population size isn't that big indeed, but it's still multiple times larger than the cruise ship.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by pandaman on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:33PM (#22700233)
>The population size isn't that big indeed, but it's still multiple times larger than the cruise ship.

Which cruise ship? Diamond Princess had ~3600 occupants (passengers and crew).

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by dwild on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:22PM (#22704228)
> Vo has 3000 inhabitants,

How can you consider the fatality rate over an uninfected population? A year ago 8 billion peoples were not infected and 0 died! I have no idea why we worry. /s

What's matter for the fatality rate is the 89 persons infected, which isn't statistically significant.

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