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Monday, September 14, 2020

Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? Your chances of dying with Covid-19 depend primarily on age

Title:
Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers?

Author:
Danny Dorling

Published:
Moneyweb, 13 September 2020
https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/coronavirus-why-arent-death-rates-rising-with-case-numbers/

From the article:
It is a conundrum. For much of the past two months, many people have been convinced that mortality associated with Covid-19 would rise as the number of people testing positive with the disease increased. But this has not happened so far. Why? A look at government data from England and Wales can provide some clues.