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		oizin on March 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent? Calculating the mortality rates as deaths/(deaths+recovered) will give you a biased result for an ongoing epidemic.

rumanator on March 27, 2020 [–]

It's a deaths/infections ratio. What's biased about that?

irishsultan on March 27, 2020 | [–]

The number that worried the OP was deaths/(deaths + recovered), that's different from deaths/(deaths + recovered + ongoing cases).

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