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> deaths / (deaths + recoveries) How does that produce a meaningful number? If you got 1000s of infected people, and 1 dies... The formula would be 1 / (1 + 0)
by Double_a_92 7y ago
> deaths / (deaths + recoveries)
How does that produce a meaningful number?
If you got 1000s of infected people, and 1 dies... The formula would be 1 / (1 + 0) = 100%. What does that mean?
- acqq 7y agoYou simply have to have the known numbers of confirmed dead and recovered patients. The way you used it "1 / (1 + 0) = 100%" means just "the knowledge used in the formula is that one patient died, zero recovered." In that case, yes, the fatality rate is "everybody dies." But using the sample of 1 is of course not meaningful for any statistics, not only for that formula.
- tremon 7y agoIt means that nobody has succesfully recovered following a confirmed infection, which is exactly what your data suggests.