Also interesting:
The US’s COVID-19 Death Rate Is Far Below the Rates in Italy and Spain
https://mises.org/wire/uss-covid-19-death-rate-far-below-rates-italy-and-spain
...We frequently encounter a problem similar to this with
COVID-19 reporting. News stories frequently focus on
COVID-19 cases rather than death rates in their reporting.
Consider this Reuters headline today: “United States could
become coronavirus epicenter: WHO”
The casual readers who skims headlines is likely to take
away from this the idea that the United States is following
the same trajectory as countries like Spain and Italy when
it comes to the COVID-19 outbreak. We have heard that death
rates in Italy are alarming in much of Western Europe, and
some have claimed the US will soon experience the same fate
as Italy. While it is true the United States will soon pass
up Italy in terms of total cases, the US is far, far below
Italy in terms of its COVID-19 death rate, even if we
account for the differences in the timeline.
To see these sizable differences, let’s measure COVID-19
deaths the same way we measure homicides: in terms of deaths
per 100,000 population: ...
See link for much more if interested. Charts compare after
(It looks like we’re still 0.2 to 0.24 in the US, versus 9.4
deaths per 100K population in Italy, even accounting for
timeline differences.)
I will add those charts to my next post, though.
Because Italy’s, and now Spain’s, HCSs are failing.
The differences in reported national Virus death rates are irrelevant given the definitional differences between nations as to what is and what isn’t a Wuhan Virus death. The same problem exists with reported crime rates of different nations, and lots of other thing. This has been true for a long time.