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The mortality rate is roughly 1.7%. You took the result of dividing deaths by cases and added a percent sign instead of multiplying by 100 to get an actual per
by edrxty 6y ago
The mortality rate is roughly 1.7%. You took the result of dividing deaths by cases and added a percent sign instead of multiplying by 100 to get an actual percentage.
That number is actually 0.017 people die for every one person that gets it.
- xref 6y agoReally not sure why you’re being downvoted, 1.7% is the correct number per Johns Hopkins https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality Also if op was trying to cherry pick lower numbers for certain populations that’s silly, like somehow during your college years you never interact with anyone older than 22. Also there’s many more negative outcomes to consider besides simply mortality rate.
- edrxty 6y agoIDFK... HN just likes to be weird sometimes. I don't think anyone actually read my entire comment about the obvious math error and just assumed I was siding with them?