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by salamanderman 2278 days ago
I'm confused why everything keeps reporting mortality rate as (#deaths / #confirmed_cases). People are confirmed cases for a while before the outcome is known. Shouldn't it be (#deaths / (#deaths + #recovered))? I mean, that would imply the mortality rate is around 13%, which would be awful, but the math makes more sense to me. Are the values for #recovered so suspect that they aren't worth using at all?