Posted on 03/18/2020 12:54:54 PM PDT by bitt
Earlier today, I posted several charts showing coronavirus fatalities in various countries in several formats. Many think that per capita mortality rates are the most relevant metric; our friend Brian Sullivan, who runs a highly sophisticated biomedical company, emailed us today with these comments:
Another worthwhile analysis would consider the common sense observation that the US, South Korea, and Europe had their first cases at roughly the same time. Therefore, I think it is informative to compare the per capita number of cases and deaths in Europe and South Korea to those in the US. I created the table below to calculate the per capita case and death rate in each country as of March 17th as reported by the Worldometers website.
I converted Brian’s table, as it relates to mortality, into a simple bar chart that shows deaths per million of population; click to enlarge:
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“Travel bans haven’t contained its spread, merely slowed it down.”
I believe this is the whole idea. By slowing the spread it buys time for those who are symptomatic (and hospitalized) to get well so as not to overwhelm the health care system.
in the US, how is the Chinese population of Washington state, California, and NY compared to say Ks, Iowa, Missouri and North Dakota? I am pretty certain the areas with the highest number of cases also have relatively high Chinese populations.
I think the question about susceptibility by age has been answered by data from Italy and here as well as China and Europe. In Italy the average of those who died was 80.3 yrs AND all had multiple health issues. Here all who died were over 65 with most by far over 70 and 80 again with previous health issues.
How about we compare in each country the death rate to the number of Chinese nationals per capita.
I know the first case in NYS came from an Iranian national.
Rural Italians and bedridden nursing home patients could have been visited by vacationing relatives and friends or cared for by infected persons returning from their vacations overseas. Nursing home patients are dependent on their caregivers. The caregivers and visitors bring the virus into the at risk population. The returning vacationing caregivers and visitors are the vectors bringing it home to the innocents.
Say what????
Deaths per capita? How does one have more than one per person????
I think the title on the Chart is WRONG!
Earlier artical on “Italians love their grandparents”. Three generations living together in close proximity. Trump closed flights from China in January, Canada not until this week. Chinese flew to Vancouver for two months, then drove over the border into Seattle.
Surely you know your question protecting China, “How many 80 year olds do you know who have vacationed in China?” is empty...
this spreads between people, not every infected person has to go to China.
Per capita means per person. It is a Latin term that translates to "by the head." It's commonly used in statistics, economics, and business to report an average per person. It tells you how a country, state, or city affects its residents
BINGO!
Russia has reported 147 total cases so far.
0 deaths, 8 recovered.
The Italian outbreak was reported as a Pakistani.
Thank the liberal activist Obama appointed Democrat judge in NY for reversing the President's travel ban or quarantine on those coming from Iran.
One death for each one, means no survivors, right.
Seems like the numbers on the left would be close to: number of deaths per 100,000.
>>The Italian and American cases are of unknown origin.
And further, it’s worth pointing out that the Chinese were even pushing a propaganda line of not stigmatizing the returning Chinese in Italy due to the WuFlu. The idea we don’t know with significant certainty that it came from China via this large Chinese population in Northern Italy is absurd. Similarly for here in the U.S.
Do you mean Chinese or Americans of Chinese descent?
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