CRI350H1 Lecture Notes - Andrew Cuomo, Case Fatality Rate
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Andrew cuomo & infection rate of covid 19. Governor cuomo states that the sample size of the study was about 3000 new yorkers. But overall population of the state of new york is approximately 19. 5 million people. We can 3000 is actually a large sample. New york is using this data to estimate the infection fatality rate (deaths/infections) rather. To do so, they rely on estimates that approx 15,500 residents of the state have died from than the case fatality rate the illness. Death counts in new york and china have been revised upward. This revision of death counts is certain to occur in other contexts once the crisis is over. To their credit, the governor acknowledges in his slides that the 15,500 death measure does not include deaths at home. Official crime statistics in the united states rely on information provided to the fbi by local police departments.
