Covid-2019 - 2020-08-14
Date:
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Summary:
A wholesale revision in reporting deaths drops the UK's cumulative case fatality rate from about 15%, among the worst in the world, to 13%, well, still among the worst in the world. In the US, testing is at a near-record 840,000 per day -- yet the front page of the New York Times leads with "‘We’re Clearly Not Doing Enough’: Drop in Testing Hampers Coronavirus Response" (see our "Recommended Reading" page, but don't believe it).