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Heres what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong – News – The University of Sydney
It’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, writes Dr Jacques Raubenheimer from the University of Sydney.
However, social media posts routinely compare COVID-19 figures with those of other causes of death that show:
Even when researchers talk of exponential growth, they can still mislead.
An Israeli professors widely-shared analysis claimed COVID-19s exponential growth fades after eight weeks. Well, he was clearly wrong. But why?
His model assumed COVID-19 cases grow exponentially over a number of days, instead of over a succession of transmissions, each of which may take several days. This led h…
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