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Open thread March 27, 2020

Dan Crawford | March 27, 2020 7:39 am

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  • Arne says:
    March 28, 2020 at 12:46 pm

    Germany has a remarkably low coronavirus death rate

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-has-a-remarkably-low-coronavirus-death-rate-—-thanks-largely-to-mass-testing-but-also-culture-luck-and-an-impressive-healthcare-system/ar-BB11PpiJ?ocid=spartanntp

    Buried in the article is “The net effect is that more testing leads to a lower-looking death rate.”

    The author understand that adding more to the denominator does not change reality, but the headline writer probably does not.

  • Arne says:
    March 28, 2020 at 12:50 pm

    Of course, the mathematics of my above comment ignores (as I think the article does) that confirming for someone that they are positive may be the only way to get some people to actually isolate themselves.

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