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Reply to: Dr. Erickson’s viral “COVID-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong Posted April 28, 2020

yes i should have added a 0 to get .002, but I was responding to an earlier post where you had claimed 2 out of 100, not 2 out of 1000. Not sure why you add the first step when 23,000 divided by 20,000,000 = .0015 which is 1 or 2 in 1000. If you wanted the final number to represent the number out of 1000 you should have divided 1,000 (not 100) by 20,000,000 and then multiply by 23,000 and end up with 1.15.

Reply to: Dr. Erickson’s viral “COVID-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong Posted April 28, 2020

Your math is off. For your 2 in 100 number to be correct based on 23k deaths the population of New York would have to be 1.15M. It is 10x higher than that, which is why the 2 percent number is 10x lower, i.e. .02

Reply to: Dr. Erickson’s viral “COVID-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong Posted April 27, 2020

The testing was not “limited” to patients showing signs as the author claims. If you’re pointing out that the people who sought the test were more likely to have it, I cannot argue that. But anybody who showed up got tested, which is different than where I’m from where screening prevents many from being tested – and different from what the author claims.

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Reply to: Dr. Erickson’s viral “COVID-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong Posted April 28, 2020

yes i should have added a 0 to get .002, but I was responding to an earlier post where you had claimed 2 out of 100, not 2 out of 1000. Not sure why you add the first step when 23,000 divided by 20,000,000 = .0015 which is 1 or 2 in 1000. If you wanted the final number to represent the number out of 1000 you should have divided 1,000 (not 100) by 20,000,000 and then multiply by 23,000 and end up with 1.15.

Reply to: Dr. Erickson’s viral “COVID-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong Posted April 28, 2020

Your math is off. For your 2 in 100 number to be correct based on 23k deaths the population of New York would have to be 1.15M. It is 10x higher than that, which is why the 2 percent number is 10x lower, i.e. .02

Reply to: Dr. Erickson’s viral “COVID-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong Posted April 27, 2020

The testing was not “limited” to patients showing signs as the author claims. If you’re pointing out that the people who sought the test were more likely to have it, I cannot argue that. But anybody who showed up got tested, which is different than where I’m from where screening prevents many from being tested – and different from what the author claims.