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Table 1 Frequencies of the most common metrics appearing in our sample of 135 news items

From: Numbers don’t speak for themselves: strategies of using numbers in public policy discourse

Period (news items)

Cases

New cases

Incidence

Deaths

Case fatality rate

Excess mortality

Re-covered

Doubling time

R- value

Total

Jan/Feb (39)

106

14

-

42

3

-

-

-

-

165

March (44)

152

10

4

52

11

-

3

13

1

246

April/May (52)

78

57

15

57

10

10

12

14

125

378

Total (135)

336

81

19

151

24

10

15

27

126

789