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Disastrous_Ad_5273 t1_jch83mr wrote

Seems like something is wrong? How can the crude mortality rate be higher than 1?

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breck OP t1_jchbzdj wrote

I believe it is an artefact of USCS' bucketing.
Imagine a simple example where you track 100 people and 99 get new cases as 70 year olds, but live until 80, and one gets cancer at 80.
The 80 group would have 99 deaths and 1 new cases, or a 9,900% mortality rate.
Hence that's why I called it a crude measure.
Ideally we could look at the raw data but only the aggregates are released.

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