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When the disease has run its course, a person is either dead or cured, right? If they are still sick, we just don't know how they'll turn out. Mr. Zhao reports 5 cured for every 1 death. That's a mortality rate of 1 in 6 cases. That's 16.7777%. I rounded up.
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Oh, one other thing. The Chinese switched their counting methodology in the last few days. Before the switch, the mortality rate was 25%. The new methodology requires only a clinical diagnosis. Before that, they tested for the virus itself.
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On a related note, early on China reported a mortality rate of around 2%. This represented the total deaths divided by the total diagnosed with the disease - while most people were still sick. They've stopped reporting that number.
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That was a nonsense number.
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