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There is something wrong with the stats in this article: "Co. Waterford has recorded 470 new cases of Covid-19 in the last week, accounting for nearly 5% of
by samwillis 5y ago
There is something wrong with the stats in this article:
"Co. Waterford has recorded 470 new cases of Covid-19 in the last week, accounting for nearly 5% of the adult population."
That would suggest there adult population of Co. Waterford is only 9,400!?
According to wikipedia its actually 116,176, so actually only 0.4% were infected last week.
If they meant 470 per 100k population that would still only be 0.47%...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Waterford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Waterford
- Denvercoder9 5y agoThere's more wonky math in the article. It gives a 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 of 404.6 for Co. Waterford, which even if we're generous and use a population of 120,000 comes out to 486 infections in a two-week period. I don't believe that this week they had 470 infections, up from 16 last week.
- smcl 5y agoYeah this was extremely careless