claim: confirmed cases a risk metric, says steve goodman, a professor of epidemiology at stanford university
evidence_1: > > \"the numbers are almost meaningless,\" says steve goodman, a professor of > epidemiology at stanford university.", "the numbers are almost meaningless, says steve goodman, a professor of epidemiology at stanford university.", "though death rate figures of around 1% have been tossed around, goodman says hes skeptical that anyone knows the death rate of this disease since we dont know the true rates of infection.")