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jason1637 on 18 April 2020
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Conina said:
Nautilus said:

According to WHO, number estimates places malaria cases in around 216 million in 2016 alone, with a mortality rate of 28%.

https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/malaria/GHO/malaria

Perhaps you should read the text instead of just looking at numbers.

The mortality rate of malaria wasn't 28% of 216 million in 2016 (that would have been 60.48 million deaths).

The decrease of the mortality rate between 2010 and 2016 was 28%, so the chances of survival got better.

435,000 malaria deaths / 216 million malaria cases = 0.2% mortality rate, not 28% mortality rate.

And do you think that the number of covid-19 deaths will be lower than 435,000 at the end of this year if the number is already at 157,000 in April, with over 1.5 million active cases and the number of new infections is still rising?

The argument he made was pretty weak. All he did was list other issues that we need to do better handling. We can tackle Covid, malaria, hunger, homelessness etc. Doesn't mean we have to ignore other problems.