One chart compares coronavirus cases per capita in the hardest-hit countries around the world — Switzerland, Spain, and Italy top the list (done first on FR?)

Business Insider ^ | March 26, 2020 | Shayanne Gal and Aylin Woodward

[DoodleBob]

The US, China, and Italy (in that order) have the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. But an analysis of coronavirus cases per capita — the number of cases per million residents — in various countries reveals a different story.

Switzerland, not China, tops the list of COVID-19 cases per capita, with 1,340 cases per million people. It's followed by Spain, then Italy.

The US, which has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world — more than 83,000 — is low on the cases per capita list. Only 210 people in the US had been infected per million Americans as of Thursday morning. The US's case total continues to climb quickly, however, and a country's number of cases per capita changes constantly as new cases get reported. That, in turn, depends on how many people get tested.

Nearly 530,000 people in 175 countries have gotten the new coronavirus since December.

[DoodleBob]

I'm not saying BI is trolling FR, and certainly per capita analysis is nothing new...but an analysis that shows Confirmed Cases standardized by size was posted to FR on four days ago. Here is my latest update to the Confirmed Case Counts, adjusted/standardized for country population:

Country/Region	Population (MM)	Confirmed Cases 3/25/2020	Standardized Cases 3/25/2020	Rank by Confirmed Cases Mar 25	Rank by Standardized Cases Mar 25
Austria	9.0	5,588	205,337	14	6
Belgium	11.5	4,937	140,788	15	10
California	39.5	2,998	24,968	18	22
China	1433.8	82,803	19,004	1	23
Denmark	5.8	1,724	98,288	21	13
Florida	21.5	1,682	25,770	22	21
France	65.1	25,233	127,489	10	11
Germany	83.5	37,323	147,056	6	9
Hubei	58.5	67,801	381,383	3	4
Iran	82.9	27,017	107,224	9	12
Italy	60.6	74,386	404,258	2	3
Korea, South	51.2	9,137	58,695	13	17
Massachusetts	6.9	1,838	87,031	20	14
New Jersey	8.9	4,402	163,084	16	8
New York	19.5	30,841	521,688	8	1
Norway	5.4	3,084	188,671	17	7
Pennsylvania	12.8	1,260	32,387	23	20
Spain	46.7	49,515	348,626	5	5
Sweden	10.0	2,526	82,821	19	15
Switzerland	8.6	10,897	417,375	11	2
Texas	29.0	1,229	13,948	24	24
United Kingdom	67.5	9,529	46,433	12	18
US	329.1	65,778	65,778	4	16
US excl NY	309.6	34,937	37,132	7	19

Despite the sequential double-digit growth rate in US Confirmed Cases, the relative ranking of the US' standardized case count remains relatively low. The US was at 16th on this list when you adjust for the population, vs 4th in absolute terms. Further, if you remove New York (which is accounting makes up about 6% of the total population but 47% of the total US case count), the US is the 19th lowest out of these 24 select countries/states. Indeed, NY State is now the size-adjusted case count leader in this selection of countries/regions/states.

[GnuThere]

What’s the deal with Switzerland, is it entirely explained by their border with Italy?

[GMMC0987]

Nice theory, but it assumes you can trust the reported numbers from all countries. We know China isn’t being honest and learned that Italy reported all deaths “with” the virus as being caused by the virus.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Good God, Washington State should be included, much less “US excluding NY”. Well, maybe NY by sheer number, but WA I exclude to analyze any “death rate” because they are at some 5%, completely throwing off the rate for USA.

[BradyLS]

China’s numbers should have a big, ol’ asterisk!

[Steven Scharf]

You realize it took an intern about 5 minutes to pull this from WorldMeter website including the cases per million. They are crediting Johns Hopkins, but the font is the same that Worldmeter uses.

[Stosh]

Statistics supplied by the Chinese government (for all intents and purposes the Chinese Communist Party) remind me of the comment the writer Mary McCarthy made in reference to the notorious lefty author Lillian Hellman: “every word she writes is a lie, including “and” and “the.”

[LibertyOh]

Switzerland has a population highly concentrated in cites and villages where single family homes are very rare. Lived there in 2008 - 09 in a small village outside Zurich. Mostly apartment or condo type housing. At best duplexes. Small and very expensive, spent a lot of time outdoors and most people do, so likely even if tried to be isolated would come close others on walks. Most people use trains so that would likely also play a part.

[Fai Mao]

“Most people use trains so that would likely also play a part.”

Yeah, Switzerland is very anti-car. At least according to Jeremy Clarkson

[thoughtomator]

I don’t believe the German numbers much more than I believe the Chinese ones. Something really off about Germany reporting, their results are so much different.

Other than that, this is a chart of how much testing per capita has been done, basically.

[GOPJ]

How many of Florida’s cases are clustered within 50 miles of MacDill’s Central Command?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The US, China, and Italy (in that order) have the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.

This is laughable because it assumes the Chinese are telling the truth. Reality is that China almost certainly has far more cases than the US and Italy put together.

[GOPJ]

Switzerland’s a major world financial center - much like New York City. I’d like to see a breakdown based on how close to strategic cities ...

[Rembrandt]

“What’s the deal with Switzerland, is it entirely explained by their border with Italy?”

Italy, Switzerland and Spain are all in Southern Europe; Spain and Italy were cited as locations that Chinese tourists (lots of seeds) went to en masse when Trump shut down flights from China to the U.S. Switzerland shares a common border with Italy in the north of Italy with Milan not too far.

What I wonder about is why there are 3 different curves; estimating the graphs of the listed countries, the last four are on one curve, the top three are on a different curve and those in the middle are on yet another curve with a couple of outliers.

Analysis courtesy of Anheuser Busch.

[InterceptPoint]

You are correct about New York. But drill down to NYC and the numbers really get bad. Right now I am showing:

NYC 2678 cases per million.

That is really high.

[Rembrandt]

“What’s the deal with Switzerland, is it entirely explained by their border with Italy?”

Italy, Switzerland and Spain are all in Southern Europe; Spain and Italy were cited as locations that Chinese tourists (lots of seeds) went to en masse when Trump shut down flights from China to the U.S. Switzerland shares a common border with Italy in the north of Italy with Milan not too far.

What I wonder about is why there are 3 different curves; estimating the graphs of the listed countries, the last four are on one curve, the top three are on a different curve and those in the middle are on yet another curve with a couple of outliers. Glancing at the data again, it appears that China simply lied so they don’t fit the first curve I noted. Austria?

Analysis courtesy of Anheuser Busch.

[Paladin2]

Triple bunker beds.

How kool is that?

[DoodleBob]

Italy, AND, France AND Germany.

[indthkr]

per capita analysis - bump for later.....

[ifinnegan]

San Marino.