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They're also selected for people who made it to a hospital. The most frail types, or those who got sick after hospitals were filling up, could have died without
by lazyasciiart 7y ago
They're also selected for people who made it to a hospital. The most frail types, or those who got sick after hospitals were filling up, could have died without ever getting to a hospital, and not even be counted yet.
- not_a_moth 7y agoAgreed but even if you think the real Wuhan death count is 10x the official (ie. ~10K deaths in Wuhan), there's still an order of magnitude lower mortality rate assuming there's been widespread exposure in the 3 months
- cameldrv 7y agoWe don’t know the actual death toll in Wuhan. The number we get is people who were diagnosed and then were determined to have died of the disease. What we’d really like to know is simply how many people have died of any cause, and then subtract a base rate. The total deaths figure is not being provided.