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Erm.
Please show your working.
You sound ever so confident and yet epidemiology uses direct standardised or age standardised rates for comparing different population sizes
Chalfie-
You sound ever so confident and yet epidemiology uses direct standardised or age standardised rates for comparing different population sizes
Oh really, do they? Does epidemiology look at the Wuhan outbreak numbers by dividing the number of infected by the entire population of China?
What exactly does that tell them?
SwissChap
Just weighting it against the entire population makes it just as worthless though. The infection will never take off everywhere at the same time, so at least at the start - or if you manage to contain it mostly to one area like China apparently did -, only the population of the actual areas affected count. Otherwise, it's a game of "who has the most population overall" to keep the relative infection numbers down...