So today, was chatting with a friend who is a medic in Sierra Leone (Kenyan BTW) and he just come up with a very new angle about corona Virus numbers.
I was also not aware about this angle but it seems and looks absolutely correct way to look at it.
Now,
961,000 is the number of all persons who have been infected ever since. In it there are recovered cases, death numbers and ongoing cases.
So he says, the way we look at mortality rate as a whole is wrong 100%.
Many people argue the mortality rate is 2%,3%, etc but THAT IS NOT CORRECT.
Because we are pegging the death rate to all infections numbers which isn’t correct.
THAT we should peg the death rate towards CLOSED CASES. In that out the 961,000 people, there are people are still infected and we don’t know their outcomes.
Please understand it clearly, in Kenya we have had
110 cases.
4 recovery.
3 deaths.
Meaning 7 closed cases. The remaining 103 active cases which NOBODY KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN
So his argument is,
Mortality rate should be calculated against cases which have finalised either through death or recovery. The rest active cases WILL ALSO HAVE EITHER OF TWO OPTIONS later.
It got me scared, as its true out of the remaining 103 cases in Kenya part will survive or die.
He emphasised that is why you are seeing countries scampering around not knowing what to do.
He said covid-19, infects alot of people fast, kills slow and people recovery slowly.
In Kenya only 4 people have recovered and 3 died meaning average rate of 42%, (3 Deaths /7 total number of closed cases) as the rest 103 we don’t know their fate.
True to it checking worldmeters website it has reporting in this way ever since…
World wide mortality rate is 19%.
Out of the 961,000 cases
203,000 have recovered
49,000 have died
Over 709, 000 are active case, which will fall in either recovery or death category.
What do you guys think about this??
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