baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
don't know, but one idea is that until we can see hospitalisation rates versus death rates, then the stats are hard to draw any conclusion from
as I said a few pages back, it doesn't have any precise meaning, which is bad for a number of reasonsI'm suspicious of the very word lockdown
the stats have to be taken with a grain of salt for any number of reasons, suredon't know, but one idea is that until we can see hospitalisation rates versus death rates, then the stats are hard to draw any conclusion from
Although isn't urine sterile or something anyway?
obviously, no disease has a single fixed CFR, and it's an imprecise measure because neither cases or deaths are perfectly recorded
but still with a relatively large sample size it seems like it can give a reasonable idea of lethality
everything I've seen refers to age, basically - Italy has a lot of old people, plus a higher % of people infected have been old people there than in other places
it just seems crazy that Germany has a CFR lower than South Korea, while Italy's is the highest in the world so far
UK doctors not being allowed to report pneumonia deaths as covid without testing, and being refused tests.
right, that's what I was getting at with "differences in the way cause of death is recorded", so that confirms that suspicionthey may be recording co-morbidity mortality deaths as not being coivd related and/or they may not be swabbing many bodies.
the UK death numbers also look very suspicious for the number of cases, which itself looks suspiciously low
Only 12 new deaths in the UK today, according to Worldometer:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
However:
Have you got a link for that, droid? Not that I don't believe you.
case fatality rateWhat's CFR mean?