In the Herald last night:
THE daily death rate due to coronavirus has hit a record level.Eight have died in Scotland from Covid-19 – the highest number in one day since the outbreak -bringing the total number to 33.
You can sense their excitement at a ‘record level’ to headline and it is a record level of deaths but not a record level death rate. Being pedantic can be tiresome, I’ll admit, but sometimes the target of the correction just deserves it.
The crude number of deaths is not a rate but the rate of deaths as a percentage of cases is. Unfortunately for the Herald it was 3.2% on Wednesday past and only 3.1% last night.
It’s the Herald that’s sick.
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Since the word ‘how’ has been used, presumably the Herrod has evidence on the mechanism whereby this increase occurred. Have they been using testing to trace infections?
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They are disgusting. Celebrating deaths of fellow Scots? Shame on them.
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