Behavioral Correlates of the COVID-19 Burden in the States
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The prestige media has paid near-exclusive attention to case counts and death rates. The former is measured with a great deal of noise. And even if there weren't a substantial measurement error — how many go uncounted? — cases are a poor measure of both health burdens for the population and stress on the hospital system. The measurement errors themselves propagate to case fatality rates, which are thus too dicey to hang much on.
Behavioral Correlates of the COVID-19 Burden in the States
Behavioral Correlates of the COVID-19 Burden…
Behavioral Correlates of the COVID-19 Burden in the States
The prestige media has paid near-exclusive attention to case counts and death rates. The former is measured with a great deal of noise. And even if there weren't a substantial measurement error — how many go uncounted? — cases are a poor measure of both health burdens for the population and stress on the hospital system. The measurement errors themselves propagate to case fatality rates, which are thus too dicey to hang much on.