I have a special interest in the UK, Ireland & in Sweden. I’ve been trying to tease out the “whys” as those Nations have risen to the top of the CPM, DPM piles for Europe. Socialized medicine results in a general worsening of care and a pruning of options with cost vs number of productive lives saved having a big effect in the centralized decisions.
There are many factors to be considered in the mix such as immigrant concentration, trials of herd immunity etc.
I was looking at UK since now their DPM & CPM have passed Spain.
I discovered that their NHS has a fairly thorough presentation & I add it here for any with a similar interest. Nursing homes ~25% of UK cases.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
If we exclude the European City States of San Marino and Andorra, here are the major world countries with the most deaths per million.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
1. Belgium 826
2. UK 588
3. Spain 580
4. Italy 557
5. Sweden 452
6. France 445
7. Netherlands 351
8. Ireland 337
9. USA 333
Sweden’s ‘herd immunity’ strategy has not helped them. Sweden has moved into 5th place in terms of deaths per million. And D1’s charts show that Sweden’s death rate is still on an upward trajectory.
Perhaps one thing that these nine countries have in common is the amount of interaction with the Chinese in terms of factories that have been moved to China and the resulting travel between China and these countries.
The question that seems no one is asking is this:
Why did these nine countries with perhaps the best medical infrastructure in the world end up having the most deaths per million due to covid?