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Asian Americans Have Higher COVID-19 Case-Fatality Rates in Many States, Localities
Modern Healthcare ^ | 7-13-2020 | MHE Staff

Posted on 07/20/2020 8:49:38 AM PDT by spintreebob

The case-fatality rates is the ratio of fatalities to cases, so a high case-fatality rate could be the result of a low testing rate (a smaller denominator) as well as greater number of deaths (a larger numerator). Nguyen and his colleagues note that data from Los Angeles County and Illinois suggest that Asian Americans may be receiving disproportionately low rates of testing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; positive; testing; testingratio
How we handle statistics depends on whether it creates (or not) a new victim group ?
1 posted on 07/20/2020 8:49:38 AM PDT by spintreebob
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What if Whiteys had the worst fatality rate? Would we hear politicians falling on their knees to beg forgiveness? or would they say “Well, they deserve it!”?


2 posted on 07/20/2020 9:14:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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