Dan Crawford | March 27, 2020 7:39 am
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.
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.
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.
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.