Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

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(09-16-2020, 04:11 PM)bfine32 Wrote: What if we don't know the true number infected? Wouldn't it be more conclusive to use a known number such as total population?

Not an attempt to mitigate the deaths just something that stuck my QA nerve.

Let’s look at the mortality of lung cancer caused by decades of smoking. If the mortality is based upon the total population it would include non-smokers who get lung cancer less often than smokers. That would artificially decrease the mortality rate in smokers.

Or how about prostate cancer. If we used total population to determine the mortality rate of prostate cancer it would include women who do t even have a prostate.

Also, do we really know the true population? Someone do a head count?