> I reported the death rate. It didn't increase dramatically yet; only from 12 per day to 30 per day The death rate per day is not what is typically meant by t

> I reported the death rate. It didn't increase dramatically yet; only from 12 per day to 30 per day The death rate per day is not what is typically meant by the "death rate", and it suffers from the issue I described: it will absolutely go up as long as cases go up, but that isn't an indication of severity. The "death rate" in the context of epidemiology means the number of deaths per case, not per day. This is what differentiates extremely serious diseases, like ebola, which are rare, but have a death rate of around 50%, vs the flu, which is common but has a death rate of less than 1%. So yes, daily deaths are increasing in South Africa, but the number of cases in South Africa is skyrocketing as well, so it doesn't really tell us much.