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Oh really? Example - just google "COVID hospitalization rates". You'll find hundreds of different sites/sources all varying degrees of accuracy. This is mentall

• iso947 6y ago
  It’s a complex subject. On the one hand you have someone normally healthy who contracts covid, tests positive, and goes in for breathing difficulties. On the other hand you have someone who has tested positive but gets in a car crash. We used to pay people to take the raw facts and distil useful information. It was called journalism. Clickbait and conspiracy pays more than actual journalism though.
• usaar333 6y ago
  Because it's too simplified of a question. That's highly dependent on things like age, sex, and pre-existing conditions. Population wide numbers are in turn dependent on population structure and in turn who gets it. You see similar problems in places like /r/covid19 on reddit where people argue about IFR with few accepting the meaninglessness of the question. Complexity is hard, but I don't think the world is better if we oversimplify things.
  • ativzzz 6y ago
    Because the question is hard, and there are so many answers, you can twist those answers and that data to support pretty much any viewpoint, and ultimately this is the problem with having too much data at our fingertips.