not either, both

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:49 PM Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can't really define mortality of a disease until you either
> a) have experience with the disease
> b) count the dead
> The mortality is the number of infected divided into the number of dead.
> You don't know the outcome of those with an ongoing infection; so, the
> definition is really:
>
> dead/(recovered+dead)
>
> We don't really have much experience since there are so many ongoing
> infections.  If you actually use this definition without a lot of
> experience, the mortality rate is terrifying.
>

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