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 |