{"id":125,"date":"2020-03-22T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T02:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-03-22T19:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T02:29:36","slug":"dont-watch-the-number-of-cases-watch-doubling-of-deaths-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/22\/dont-watch-the-number-of-cases-watch-doubling-of-deaths-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t watch the number of cases &#8212; watch doubling of deaths rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of days between doubling of deaths is the one stat to watch to see if we are flattening the curve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">None of those percentages matter right now. Focus on one thing: The doubling rate for the total deaths chart.  This has nothing to do with testing, cases opened, etc. Only has to do with result. Note many days it takes for deaths to double, now about 3 days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LV0p3Yo8Nd\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>pic.twitter.com\/LV0p3Yo8Nd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Tilton (@ET_mjttech) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ET_mjttech\/status\/1241171873280352256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>March 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/coronavirus#the-growth-rate-of-covid-19-deaths\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Covid-19 Death Stats at OurWorldInData<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of days between doubling of deaths is the one stat to watch to see if we are flattening the curve. None of those percentages matter right now. Focus on one thing: The doubling rate for the total deaths chart. This has nothing to do with testing, cases opened, etc. Only has to do with &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/22\/dont-watch-the-number-of-cases-watch-doubling-of-deaths-rate\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}