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Explainer: Why the coronavirus death rate still eludes scientists – Sight Magazine
Global deaths from COVID-19 have reached 1 million, but experts are still struggling to figure out a crucial metric in the pandemic: the fatality rate – the per…
29 September 2020
DEENA BEASLEY
Reuters
Global deaths from COVID-19 have reached one million, but experts are still struggling to figure out a crucial metric in the pandemic: the fatality rate – the percentage of people infected with the pathogen who die.
Here is a look at issues surrounding better understanding the COVID-19 death rate.
How is a death rate calculated? A true mortality rate would compare deaths against the total number of infections, a denominator that remains unknown becau…
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