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I should also add that this is not a proper mortality rate (where you would wait for cases to recover and then backpropagate that properly), but number of fatalities / number of new cases. Given how fast things are evolving, this is a proxy.

Mar 19, 2020 · 23:30

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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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