Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Spain and Italy as new cases grow

Re:Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Spain and Italy as new case... by ratsmack on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:21PM (#23217556)

I wish everyone would use per capita when referencing the number of infected and deaths for comparison. It makes no sense to compare total numbers.

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Re:Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Spain and Italy as new case... by shibeouya on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:27AM (#23222022)

Not just per capita, but what we need to look at is the ratio of number of test done to number of positives.

Otherwise a country that does close to no testing might have the illusion of doing very well, just like a country doing tons of tests might have the illusion of doing very poorly (like the US, whose ratio of positive has been declining for 1.5 months but number of cases is rather flat due to ever increasing testing)

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Re:Coronavirus: Brazil overtakes Spain and Italy as new case... by tinus_hn on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:52AM (#23220015)

Truthfulness isn’t the most important thing when writing these sensation pieces.

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