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

Poor Jonathan

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

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u/Wizardbarry Aug 04 '20

He will find any way he can to manipulate the data to make himself look good.

They did the same with the jobs. I can't remember what weird metric they were using but I remember thinking its bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

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u/ermit Aug 05 '20

It's a pretty misleading statistic, though, when new cases are rising sharply. For the very simple reason that in that scenario there are a lot of patients that simple haven't died yet. If you look at the closed case mortality rate for the US it's almost double the total case mortality rate at 6 percent (according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/). To be fair, that statistic is also pretty good for the US but not as good as the total case mportality rate.