Don’t be scared of the numbers, be scared of the guy talking about the numbers.
. The piece rigorously explained why the doctor, Jeremy Faust, thought that the “CFR,” or case fatality rate, was lower than we currently think. Basically it comes down to the fact that the death rate is calculated by dividing the number of people the virus kills by the number of people who have the virus.
So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better and then, when you do have a death like you had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York, you know, all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4 percent, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1 percent.
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