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📈 Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard to show the dynamics of Сoronavirus distribution per country
https://trekhleb.dev/covid-19/
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mortality miss-concept #37

Closed hugosoftdev closed 4 years ago

hugosoftdev commented 4 years ago

First of all, congratulations for the dashboard, I really liked it!

There is a problem that I noticed and that has been very common in the covid-19 dashboards, a misinterpretation of the concept of mortality. Mortality is a measure of the number of deaths (usually or due to a specific cause) in a population scaled to the size of that population per unit of time. The correct name of the metric being represented by this dashboard is lethality.

trekhleb commented 4 years ago

Thanks for correcting that @hugosoftdev! It is merged now.