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From the article: "We re-estimated mortality rates by dividing the number of deaths on a given day by the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection 1
by Blackstone4 7y ago
From the article: "We re-estimated mortality rates by dividing the number of deaths on a given day by the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection 14 days before."
From this I understand that if a patient was infected but was not tested and confirmed until a later date, they would not be included in the denominator. Hence the denominator may be artificially low and thereby inflating the mortality rate.