News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19. Parent comment

Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by Fjolsvith on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:33AM (#23767163)
"The state of Florida has had 82,397 people 34 & under test positive for the coronavirus. Of that number, 28 have died. That’s a coronavirus death rate of .00034. They’ve had 144,210 54 and under test positive. That’s a .0016 death rate." [1]

1. https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1280250042603929604

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by akiselev on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:54AM (#23767554)
That is some seriously disingenuous math. Whoever came up with that calculation is deliberately trying to mislead (aka lying) or is utterly incapable of grasping the concept of time.

A month ago, Florida had 66,000 confirmed cases. Now it has over 200,000. With a virus take takes two to eight weeks (or more) to kill, we haven't even begun to see the real death rate.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by hi_hello on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:36AM (#23767768)
Yep. Even without accounting for the lagging death metric, the present mortality rate in FL, all ages, is around 1.7% (3.8k deaths/213.8k confirmed)[1].

.. side note, 20452 confirmed cases per million residents of Miami-Dade. 2% of the population, geez.

[1] https://covid-19.direct/county/FL/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke ... by jakeogh on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:01AM (#23768445)
Where are the FL excess death stats?
[ Parent | on HN ]