Numbers have to be quantified. "Death rate" can be stated as being number of deaths per number tested as positive, or it can be stated as number of deaths per total population. Obviously, BrentD is talking about the former, not the latter, as there are estimated to be over 330,149,000 people in the USA. Death rate in our total population would be 82,000 divided by 330,149,000, or .000248.

Watch the scales on the graphs they show. Bar graphs can be manipulated to be misleading, if you don't look closely at the scales.

SRH

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