How to talk about epidemiology with lay people
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3 min readJun 12, 2020
Two days ago a Bolsonaro supporter (and we’ll never know who because whatsapp erases the origin of any content) shared a hand written piece of paper adding the population of a couple of European countries and their death toll to compare those two numbers with the Brazilian population and covid death toll. This is what we, scientists, call “lying with numbers”.
