In Canada, Canadians on FB are crowing about their lower death rate. 3 per 1 million vs 14 for the USA. I can’t explain it. Despite the popular myth Canada is a more urban country than the USA, so I don’t understand why our death rate is so low.
One possibility: Canada may be pulling a UK and fudging the numbers from nursing homes.
Who is the Asian reporter ... ? She’s on my last nerve.
We had a family get together (via Skype) and people were laughing about the United States having the highest number of cases and making snarky comments about Trump. One of those moments that I just had to not do or say anything (just stepped away for a short bit) and let it go in one ear and out the other.
“In Canada, Canadians on FB are crowing about their lower death rate. 3 per 1 million vs 14 for the USA. I can’t explain it. Despite the popular myth Canada is a more urban country than the USA, so I don’t understand why our death rate is so low.”
Canada is more spread out than the US and has fewer people. Those factors help.
Here’s Canada’s Cov-19 interactive map page....
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html
Easy to guess that BC, Ontario, and Quebec would have the most cases.
The provincial plot graphs seem to show the begining of exponential growth curves....pressing the play button, a cursor bar moves through calendar days to show daily increase and cumulative totals.