Myron Cohen, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, told PolitiFact that the number of recoveries is also “not a metric used to calculate the prevalence (current cases) or incidence (new cases) of an infectious disease.”
“Recovery, even if it were measured properly, does not reflect interventions because we have almost none,” Cohen said in the article. “Such statistics are generally used to measure the success of a health care system when testing and treatments might be robust.”
Cohen, is the director of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases and associate vice chancellor for Global Health and Medical Affairs,
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