Woody
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I would restate that as "Confirmed cases" Comparing actual cases (which we don't know) against the deaths will yield an entirely different ratio than comparing confirmed cases against deaths.
For this reason any death rate percentage you hear touted, is absolutely meaningless because we don't know how many cases there actually are, given the extreme dearth of testing.
I dunno guys, I can think of many ways to complicate this discussion. What we might want to specifically learn about this virus certainly would have impact on how we test and interpret the results.@bobeast - True, but I would also caution that we don't know the actual death rate either. In other words, people that have died and not attributed to this virus. I think it's likely that the number of actual deaths is higher as well...
I'd keep things simple, for most us regular folks, the numbers El Capitan posted have a use and a meaning. Think of it as a thermometer....mercury in the glass tube, little lines along it's length, but with no numbers/no scale. Today I can see it's 5 lines hotter than yesterday I just don't know the actual temperature.