[alternatives?]

They lead with obituary, then switch to cases in headline. Why isn’t 1,560 deaths in headline?

[dforest]

Yep, they want you to think 36,000 people died. And they are all in the obits at one time? LOL

[Flick Lives]

They lead with obituary, then switch to cases in headline. Why isn’t 1,560 deaths in headline?

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‘cause 36,000 sounds scarier. They fail to mention that’s cases. Not deaths.

[Old Student]

“They lead with obituary, then switch to cases in headline. Why isn’t 1,560 deaths in headline?”

They’re trying to imply that all 36,000 cases are fatalities. How many readers are going to do the math? I’m pretty math-challenged, but I get 4.3% which is, IMO, an indictment of the medical care they’re receiving there. Last numbers I heard coming out of Germany were about a tenth that, at 0.37 percent.