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That's not the count of new positive cases right? If it is, after all the threads and all the posts warning about how the number in and of itself is meaningless yet it's still trotted out like a prized steed.
If it's something else, please feel free to enlighten those of us who lack the time to try to divine what the numbers are supposed to represent.
Wow, Texas has a 0.0038% morality rate. Who would have thought Texans were being so immoral?? That means that you have to meet about 26,300 immoral people before you can meet a moral person in Texas. Why is the Governor so proud of that?
On a serious note, that percentage doesn't even come close to adding up, and there is no reference as to where those numbers are even coming from. If you take 1,113 deaths as a percentage of 41,048 (in the Texas example), it's a death rate of 2.76% of the cases, not 0.0038%. The 0.0038% may be out of the entire Texas population (29 million +/-), but if so, that's a misleading way to report the mortality rate.
On a serious note, that percentage doesn't even come close to adding up, ...
Not getting the calculator out but looking at numbers from other states that are equally as low I'm taking guess it's COVID-19 deaths as percentage of total population
Wow, Texas has a 0.0038% morality rate. Who would have thought Texans were being so immoral??
On a serious note, that percentage doesn't even come close to adding up, and there is no reference as to where those numbers are even coming from. If you take 1,113 deaths as a percentage of 41,048 (in the Texas example), it's a death rate of 2.76% of the cases, not 0.0038%. The 0.0038% may be out of the entire Texas population (29 million +/-), but that's a misleading way to report the mortality rate.
It's a different way, not misleading. Reporting mortality vs positive cases suffers from the same problem that positive cases by itself, it's highly dependent on the number of tests. So, take these two scenarios:
(all values, except population are per day, not cumulative)
Day 1
Population: 10000
Tested: 100
Positive cases: 100
Deaths: 10
Positive rate: 100%
Mortality vs positive cases: 10%
Mortality vs tested: 10%
Mortality vs population: .1%
Day 2
Population: 10000 (yeah I know, it should be 9990, but just play along)
Tested: 500
Positive cases: 200
Deaths: 10
Positive rate: 40%
Mortality vs positive cases: 5%
Mortality vs tested: 2%
Mortality vs population: .1%
See how the simple act of increasing your testing and seeing a subsequent increase in positive cases (despite a drop in positive rate) also greatly affects the two mortality values that are tied to those two variables. However, mortality vs your population stays relatively the same, and depending on what you're looking for, can be a better indicator of the real world effect the virus is having vs having values that jump all over the place as your testing regimen changes day to day.
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