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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

Posted on 03/26/2020 9:19:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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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.

1 posted on 03/26/2020 9:19:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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What’s the deal with Switzerland, is it entirely explained by their border with Italy?


2 posted on 03/26/2020 9:24:45 PM PDT by GnuThere
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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.


3 posted on 03/26/2020 9:25:31 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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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.


4 posted on 03/26/2020 9:26:37 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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China’s numbers should have a big, ol’ asterisk!


5 posted on 03/26/2020 9:29:33 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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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.


6 posted on 03/26/2020 9:34:43 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: GMMC0987

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.”


7 posted on 03/26/2020 9:37:23 PM PDT by Stosh
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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.


8 posted on 03/26/2020 9:37:37 PM PDT by LibertyOh
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“Most people use trains so that would likely also play a part.”

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


9 posted on 03/26/2020 9:41:06 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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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.


10 posted on 03/26/2020 9:47:49 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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How many of Florida’s cases are clustered within 50 miles of MacDill’s Central Command?


11 posted on 03/26/2020 9:50:13 PM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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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.
12 posted on 03/26/2020 9:56:52 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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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 ...


13 posted on 03/26/2020 9:57:05 PM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeZlKu8M7A)
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“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.


14 posted on 03/26/2020 9:58:40 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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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.


15 posted on 03/26/2020 10:00:12 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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“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.


16 posted on 03/26/2020 10:00:36 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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Triple bunker beds.

How kool is that?


17 posted on 03/26/2020 10:04:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Italy, AND, France AND Germany.


18 posted on 03/26/2020 10:12:45 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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per capita analysis - bump for later.....


19 posted on 03/26/2020 10:13:51 PM PDT by indthkr
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San Marino.


20 posted on 03/26/2020 10:14:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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