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Making sense of the COVID-19 numbers
March 19, 2020, 3:59 pm
When will a coronavirus vaccine be ready?
Story by Arik Shimansky from pandemica.info
There have been many statistics thrown around concerning the mortality rate of COVID-19. By now we should be able to get a clear picture, but frankly, the numbers seem more confusing as time goes on. In this article I will try and make sense of the figures based on the table published in the Imperial College article that was used as the guidelines for the UK government policy decision (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf). This is the original table published in the article:
