Can someone explain to me why every source since the beginning of the outbreak has used (deaths/cases) to calculate the death rate and not (deaths/closed cases)? What am I missing here?

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Anonymous Fri Apr 3 02:30:01 2020 No.11528237 [Reply] [Original]

Can someone explain to me why every source since the beginning of the outbreak has used (deaths/cases) to calculate the death rate and not (deaths/closed cases)? What am I missing here?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 02:39:06 2020 No.11528254 >>11528237 healing takes longer than dying

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 02:43:24 2020 No.11528262 >>11528237 deaths/closedcases is an awful statistic because it's easier to say a person is dead than keep track of who has and doesn't have coronavirus

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:00:02 2020 No.11528284 >>11528237 >What am I missing here? A brain. Now go back to /pol/.

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