> the 1.18 times more deaths divided by 1.02 more people This should have been the title of the post, or, if not, then a very close approximation of it. What'

> the 1.18 times more deaths divided by 1.02 more people This should have been the title of the post, or, if not, then a very close approximation of it. What's worse is that going by the title alone I had suspected some clickbait-y foul play, because many of today's articles that rely on numbers or stats have start resorting to those tactics.