incidence 1·8%

[GoodTaste]

Does "incidence 1·8%" here mean "happening rate (= the number of COVID-19 patients with HIV infection/the number of all COVID-19 patients)"?


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Description of COVID-19 in HIV-infected individuals: a single-centre, prospective cohort
Background
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Findings
51 HIV-infected individuals were diagnosed with COVID-19 (incidence 1·8%, 95% CI 1·3–2·3). Mean age of patients was 53·3 years (SD 9·5); eight (16%) were women, and 43 (84%) men. 35 (69%) cases of co-infection had laboratory confirmed COVID-19, and 28 (55%) required hospital admission.



Source: The Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...164-8/fulltext

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I'm wondering if the dot between 1 and 8 is a decimal point. I've never seen one raised like that. If it means 1.8%, then yes, it's its incedence. It's the rate at which it happens. (I've never heard the expression phrase "happening rate.")

 

[GoodTaste]

Google has 13,700 hits for "happening rate":


Advances in Energy, Environment and Materials Science: ...books.google.co.jp › books
The moderate drought happening rate of PDECI varies from 2% to 22%, while the SPI value is 4%–32%. The differences between the results of the two methods ...
Yeping Wang, ‎Jianhua Zhao - 2018 - ‎Science



It is not the common data about the happening rate of hydrogen embrittlement by itself. And the hydrogen occlusion quantity can not be measured directly.

Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed at the ... Session of the ...books.google.co.jp › books
... arising, originating, or happening rate permit- in the state, who shall remove any such cause from such state court into any of the federal courts held or sitting ...
1884 - ‎Law

Clinical treatment test of Melsmon on menopausal disordermelsmon.co.jp › content › img › report › Clinical_treat...
PDF
Regarding side effect, Melsmon group happening rate is 9.7% and there is no significant difference compared to. Placebo group.

 

[GoesStation]

I'm wondering if the dot between 1 and 8 is a decimal point. I've never seen one raised like that.

It is. That's a typographical convention used in Britain. I've read that it's less common now than it used to be.

 

[GoesStation]

Google has 13,700 hits for "happening rate"

The first quotation is attributed to two people with Chinese names who are quite likely not native speakers. The second is a garbled Google Books machine transcription of a 135-year-old legal text.

The last one comes from a site in Japan, suggesting it also wasn't written by a native speaker.

Don't use the phrase "happening rate". It just isn't natural.

 

[GoodTaste]

Generally I will not use it.

But the first example has been published in Science whose impact is strongly felt internationally. So it is likely accepted by scientific community.

 

[GoesStation]

Generally I will not use it.

But the first example has been published in Science whose impact is strongly felt internationally. So it is likely accepted by the scientific community.

Science publishes many articles written by non-native speakers. As a scientific journal, it can't change refereed texts. It will presumably return a manuscript and request changes for language errors that impede understanding, but it has to accept a certain amount of comprehensible but awkward wording.