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Föderation EN Do 19.12.2024 17:50:12 @cwebber has a thread on the current H5N1 situation, which is an interesting (and useful) read. There are mortality stats in it and I wanted to add some statistics color to that, since it's common for people to see these and panic. Don't panic! (actually never panic, it doesn't help) Disease fatality/injury rates are, especially for very rare occurrence diseases, extremely biased because the sample the draw from is biased. The real rates are almost always lower. https://social.coop/@cwebber/113680455871797535 1/N |
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Föderation EN Do 19.12.2024 17:52:48 The main reason the real rates for these rare-infection diseases is lower is because we're only analyzing the stats on the people we actually know got the disease, and for these rare diseases that means people who either died (so the local authorities checked), or got sick enough to go see a doctor *and* got their infection analyzed. If you just felt meh, or didn't present symptoms, or your doctor waved you off, then you won't be in the stats. |
