Tagged: infection fatality rate

Now everyone’s a statistician. Here’s what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong - COVID-19

Guest Author • Sep 14, 2020 •

• case fatality rate,
• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• epidemiology,
• infection fatality rate,
• statistics

Jacques Raubenheimer, University of Sydney If we don’t analyse statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don’t have the right context. For instance, we may cherry pick statistics supporting our viewpoint and ignore statistics showing we are wrong. We also still need to correctly interpret these … Read More

Research shows Māori are more likely to die from COVID-19 than other New Zealanders - COVID-19

Guest Author • Sep 04, 2020 •

• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• equity,
• infection fatality rate,
• Māori,
• Pacific,
• Pandemic

Michael Plank, University of Canterbury; Andrew Sporle; Kate Hannah; Melissa McLeod, University of Otago, and Nicholas Steyn The risk of dying from COVID-19 is at least 50% higher for Māori than New Zealanders from European backgrounds, according to our study published today. Māori and Pacific populations are historically at greater risk of hospitalisation and death from pandemics. During the … Read More