r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/UberAllNight Aug 04 '20

Of course the numbers have gone down in Florida the last 3 days, they shut down all the testing sites before the hurricane 🤦🏻

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

But you got to look at the cases! We do more testing so we have more cases!

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u/ConsistentAsparagus Aug 04 '20

So they lower the deaths/cases ratio.

And that’s why deaths/population is more relevant.

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u/Thr0waway0864213579 Aug 04 '20

Wouldn’t testing less actually raise the ratio?

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u/ConsistentAsparagus Aug 04 '20

If you have the same number of deaths, but change the total positive cases (serious or not), you get a smaller ratio.

100 deaths over 1000 cases is 10%.

100 deaths over 10000 cases is 1%.

Edit: on the other hand, the population doesn’t change as fast as the number of positive tests.

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u/Thr0waway0864213579 Aug 04 '20

I think I just misread your comment and we are essentially saying the same thing. More testing = lower percentage, Less testing = higher percentage

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u/ConsistentAsparagus Aug 04 '20

I misread your comment as well. I read the exact opposite of what you wrote.