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on the other hand, at least one newspaper in India has an article [1] titled: "India's coronavirus infection rates are among the highest in Asia" we are under
by asicsp 7y ago
on the other hand, at least one newspaper in India has an article [1] titled: "India's coronavirus infection rates are among the highest in Asia"
we are under lockdown for more than a month now, and in my state, there's even stricter lockdown for past few days (not even groceries/vegetable shops are open, supplies provided to some extent via government operated mobile vending, door deliveries, etc)
[1] https://www.thehindu.com/data/indias-coronavirus-infection-rates-are-among-the-highest-in-asia/article31440360.ece https://www.thehindu.com/data/indias-coronavirus-infection-r...
- oefrha 7y agoWhoever wrote that article apparently has no idea what “rate” means, as they were comparing total case and death counts: > India is among the four Asian countries with at least 25,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 800 related deaths as of April 26. China, Turkey and Iran are the other three. India and China each has one fifth of world’s population ffs. The infection rate in each is tiny.
- asicsp 7y agoyeah, seems like a mixed bag with the wrong conclusion they show the graphs, from which one can infer whether the infection is increasing/decreasing but the top-5 conclusion seems to be based on total cases, which is probably not the case if rate is considered