New column, deaths per million.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

This is really the tale of the tape. Far right column and you can toggle it to put it in ascending or descending order. Click on the arrows.

For an example.

Italy has 113 deaths per million.

S. Korea 2 deaths per million

The US 2 deaths per million

The UK 6 deaths per million.

'Genetics'...

But that very term will go straight over the empty heads of certain trash-talking far-right anti-science nongs around here..


When all other environmental, cultural and political factors are accounted for -- i.e. "all other things being equal" --  one then needs to look to common related traits within the populations.

Consider human population spread (i.e. 'migrations') over the last few millenia.  Especially, consider the 'footprint's of the Roman and Ottoman empires, and then look to the regions that have the highest susceptibility and vulnerability..

Conversely, look to those regions with the lowest figures --  and consider if previous exposures to Covid-type viruses might have contributed some level of "herd immunity"...   Likewise, some previous experience with similar 'pandemics' might have seen some Asian and S.E. Asian countries reacting more quickly..


Whereas in the USA, a privately-controlled health system, corporatist guvm'nt with a denialist White House, allied with its traditional "freedoms"/individualism/distrust of gov't redneck and 'libertarian' noisemakers, has left the nation chasing the pack, rather than leading..

Maddog wrote:https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

This is really the tale of the tape. Far right column and you can toggle it to put it in ascending or descending order. Click on the arrows.

For an example.

Italy has 113 deaths per million.

S. Korea 2 deaths per million

The US 2 deaths per million

The UK 6 deaths per million.  

It appears that Spain is giving Italy a run for it's money.

Of course at the time of this post, Italy hasn't posted any death figures and Spain has.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

And if you're wondering which US states have the most cases........

For once I wish we were at the bottom...

You know how if you are looking at the light of a star, that light started it's journey 2-million or more light years ago?

That's the way it is with Covid-19.  By the time it is discovered and measured in a given person, it's already been well on it's path of infecting others.

What a load of absolute guff!

Cass wrote:For once I wish we were at the bottom...

You would have been closer to the bottom if you had a wall on your western boundary instead of your southern.

Tommy Monk wrote:What a load of absolute guff!

Denial is a river in east Africa.

Walls won't stop a virus. Typical RW thinking.

Italy 151
S Korea 3
UK 11
US 5

Today...

Italy has recorded 919 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily figure in the outbreak so far.

Those countries where both infection and mortality figures are expected to race up the charts over coming weeks,  for various reasons,  include :

USA
Indonesia
India..

Populations in both densely populated places (e.g. the Philipines and Thailand..), and some remote communities (e.g. Pacific Islands, Eastern Russia, the Canadian and Aussie "outbacks"..) will need to be monitored, as well.

eddie wrote:Today...

Italy has recorded 919 new coronavirus deaths, its highest daily figure in the outbreak so far.

Yes with a population of about 60 million, which is why their rate is off the charts.

I was hoping to see some leveling off or slowing down in Italy and Spain. No such luck.

Italy 166
S Korea 3
UK 18
US 6

Italy 322
S Korea 4
UK 145
US 62

And two new areas, because I think it matters because these two states are similar in population to many European countries.

NY 440
Texas 9

Italy 495
S Korea 5
UK 451
USA 232
Sweden 301

NY 1,344
TX 37