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by oizin 2269 days ago
Calculating the mortality rates as deaths/(deaths+recovered) will give you a biased result for an ongoing epidemic.
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rumanator 2269 days ago
It's a deaths/infections ratio. What's biased about that?
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irishsultan 2269 days ago
The number that worried the OP was deaths/(deaths + recovered), that's different from deaths/(deaths + recovered + ongoing cases).
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