{"id":12497,"date":"2022-05-05T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:55:49","slug":"reporters-lack-math-and-logic-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/05\/05\/reporters-lack-math-and-logic-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporters lack math and logic skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you see the problem here?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, more than two years and 999,999 fatalities later, the U.S. death toll is the world&#8217;s highest total by a significant margin, figures show. In a distant second is Brazil, which has recorded just over 660,000 confirmed Covid deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/covids-toll-us-reaches-1-million-deaths-unfathomable-number-rcna22105\">Covid&#8217;s toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The implication is the U.S. had the worst Covid record in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Highly misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., by population, is one of the largest countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>When converted to Covid mortality per million (which adjusts for each country&#8217;s population), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1104709\/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants\/\">the U.S. ranks #18 on the list<\/a> &#8211; and Brazil&#8217;s mortality rate is higher than the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/05-05-2022-14.9-million-excess-deaths-were-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-2020-and-2021\">WHO releases new report estimating that 4.7 million died in India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The estimates for a 24-month period (2020 and 2021) include a breakdown of excess mortality by age and sex. They confirm that the global death toll was higher for men than for women (57% male, 43% female) and higher among older adults. The absolute count of the excess deaths is affected by the population size. The number of excess deaths per 100,000 gives a more objective picture of the pandemic than reported COVID-19 mortality data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC publishes a news report on Covid with a glaring simple math and logic problem. Embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-media","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}