Re:India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
by lottin on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:27AM
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These are confirmed cases, i.e. people who have tested positive. Actual cases, either in India or the UK, are unknown.
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Re:India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
by thaway757383884 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:35AM
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Even if India’s number is off by 2 orders of magnitude so the number of cases were actually ~70000 (highly unlikely, since those numbers would show up in hospitalizations), that would 70,000/1.4Bn, so about 1 in 20,000.
NYC at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 1000, and the UK at 6000 cases meant it had approx 1 positive in 10,000.
So even if we assume that the US and UK were not undercounting, and that India was undercounting by a factor of 100 (!), India was about half as infected as the UK and an order of magnitude less infected than NYC when it entered lockdown.
Re:India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
by adrianN on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:32AM
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India is a pretty big country and just assuming an equal distribution of cases doesn't seem very useful.
Re:India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
by gindely on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:55AM
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The difference between a confirmed case and all cases is that in a confirmed case is a case which has had a viral confirmation. But all cases still involves only those people who have presented for medical attention, because a case is effectively a file about a person. What is unknown is infections.