Thread on deducing the death rate of 2019-nCoV: OK, I think I get it now, sorry that I have been so dense. China is relating the number of confirmed cases instead of the best estimates, which relates more to the testing capacity in the crisis region than to the incidence.
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China (as perhaps our own governments as well) does not consider it prudent to report the full extent of China‘s present and our future humanitarian crisis. But at least they are letting us know the mortality estimate. It’s the pattern encoded into two meaningless numbers: 2.1%.
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If the disease is mainly killing people with diminished lung capacity, bear in mind that China has more smokers and severe air pollution, so the rate may be much lower in the US. All of the above are speculative thoughts. Don’t believe anything I say.
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