Because we have done little testing, many people dying from CV currently

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Mar 24, 2020
10:52:21am

Uncle Bluto All-American

Because we have done little testing, many people dying from CV currently

who were not tested are categorized as dying from a flu like illness.

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Uncle Bluto

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Trying to make sense of some of the WHO numbers from Spain and US

slappy All-American

3/24/20 10:48am

That's one of the reasons the data is crap: there is no uniformity in reporting

Indy Coug

3/24/20 10:51am

Reporting isn't consistent, testing isn't consistent, treatment isn't consistent

wabluecoug

3/24/20 10:51am

Because we have done little testing, many people dying from CV currently

Uncle Bluto

3/24/20 10:52am

If true, you'd expect the flu numbers to be higher than average. They aren't.

gwalker

3/24/20 11:48am

Tracking higher than last year slightly but they are independent. It may be

Uncle Bluto

3/24/20 12:03pm

The WHO numbers are basically a load of crap at this point. I

kotacoug

3/24/20 10:54am

Yet they are exponential. So there might be some evening out of the errors.

Blue Ghost

3/24/20 11:01am

Less testing in Spain and they are further along on their curve.

BYUCLA

3/24/20 10:54am

This. Who and when you test has a huge impact. If you wait until

bluesloth

3/24/20 11:01am

The WHo

idcougarfan

3/24/20 10:57am

Does Spain have a mutated form of the virus?

BW84

3/24/20 11:47am

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