Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Fourth Edition Chapter 9 Question 19 Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Fourth Edition 9.7 Practice Problems 19. A single- center study of n = 143 patients with COVID-19 admitted to Hubei NO.3 People's Hospital of Jiaghan University from January 15 , 2020 to February 28, 2020 explored correlations between clinical and biochemical measures of disease severity. The authors reported that disease severity was correlated with age ( r = 0.458 , p 0.001 ) and white cell count ( r = 0.229 , p < 0.006 ) . Which of the following is not true? a. The correlation between age and disease severity is moderate and positive. b. There is a stronger correlation between age and disease severity than between white cell count and disease severity. c. The correlation between white cell count and disease severity is weak and positive. d. There is a stronger correlation between white cell count and disease severity than between age and disease severity..