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Old 30-10-2020, 11:44   #569
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Everybody is seeing more “cases”, which has already been shown to be a red herring of a metric that doesn’t really tell you anything useful, only just how non-lethal the virus really is.

That graph shows deaths which is a much better metric to use.
And of course showing the “deaths” graph in the previous form is skewed because of the disproportionate amount of deaths in care homes due to the absence of measures to prevent this.

I agree deaths is a good figure to use though and in the UK that figure is most definitely going the wrong way. So how do you propose to cause less deaths by opening up further?
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