I'm chronically ill & disabled in Canada and we had a deeply mediocre response. Part of why I finally caught COVID a month ago despite always taking precautions.

Unsure which nations did it better.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Probably best to look at deaths per capita for countries wealthy enough to reliably be able count these deaths.

    By this metric Peru did worst with 666/100k.

    US at 341/100k

    Canada at 135/100k

    Countries widely considered by the west to have had successful control efforts are Australia 77/100k, Cringe Korea 67/100k, Japan 58/100k and New Zealand 53/100k.

    Singapore had 29/100k

    Venezuela had 21/100k

    China at the bottom had 7/100k, down among a sea of the poorest nations in the world for whom covid tracking was a luxury.

    Edit: Looking at these numbers I'm now really curious what these numbers would look like scaled against GDP. Like based on how able a country was to afford a serious response, how many people did they kill?

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      1 year ago
      dumb joke

      Korea, North

      Confirmed cases: 1

      Deaths: 6

      Case-fatality: 600%

      Juche necromancy confirmed?

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      In the US around a million people died, with numbers of Canada it would've saved 600k people, with numbers of China it would've saved 980k people.

      • MF_COOM [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yes you would sorry I misread no, you wouldn't, you could use GDP per capita. It's just a comparative measure