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Mikio Braun

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One thing that came up in discussions was how small the number of Corona related fatalities in Germany seems to be. So I plotted the number of fatalities vs. total cases in loglog, and indeed, the data seems very weird.

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:12

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One thing that came up in discussions was how small the number of Corona related fatalities in Germa...

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:12

This is based on the data from https://t.co/SL1w4mTnk5

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:12

I can understand that the mortality rate goes up in places like China because new infections go down...

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:13

You could also argue that you can see when the health system in Italy was at capacity and mortality ...

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:14

Still, the differences are so huge, they don't make a lot of sense and (I suspect) rather point to h...

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:15

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