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Ummm, no? https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths#what-is-the-daily-number-of-confirmed-deaths https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths#what-is-the-daily-nu...
by me_me_me 6y ago
Ummm, no?
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths#what-is-the-daily-number-of-confirmed-deaths https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths#what-is-the-daily-nu...
First graph is global deaths daily. Pretty linear to me.
Second grapn is per country/continent.
Third graph plots cases vs deaths.
From this it seems that we detect more cases but same amount of people are dying.
We are testing more. Thats it sadly.
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- sp332 6y agoClassic problem with derivatives: when you have a "rate" of something, it's with respect to a second thing. Most often it's time, which is what people usually default to if you leave out that piece of information. And that's what your chart shows: steady number of deaths per week. But the article is talking about number of deaths per person hospitalized. That is the rate that is decreasing... with respect to time.
- JackFr 6y agoIt's a shame you're not a referee for the Journal of Hospital Medicine; you might have caught that embarrassing error.