[ExI] The Japanese mystery: why so few COVID cases?

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] The Japanese mystery: why so few COVID cases?

 

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:11 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

> Sweden has also adopted very little mask wearing as another non-complying data point.

 

"Fearing the country’s lax approach to combating the coronavirus, Sweden’s Scandinavian neighbors (Denmark, Norway and Finland) have all closed their borders to Swedes. [...] While those countries went into strict lockdowns this spring, Sweden famously refused, and now has suffered roughly twice as many infections and five times as many deaths as the other three nations combined"

 

Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-pariah-scandinavia.html> 

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

One wonders what Belgium did so wrong.  They were hit much harder than Sweden, with almost half again the number of deaths per capita, .00084 vs Sweden’s .000523 death rate.

 

 


#

Country,
Other

Total
Cases

New
Cases

Total
Deaths

New
Deaths

Total
Recovered

Active
Cases

Serious,
Critical

Tot Cases/
1M pop

Deaths/
1M pop

Total
Tests

Tests/
1M pop

Population


1

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/san-marino/> San Marino

698

	42

	656

0

	20,571

1,238

5,669

167,074

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/san-marino-population/> 33,931


2

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/belgium/> Belgium

61,361

+66

9,732

	16,941

34,688

35

5,295

840

1,191,959

102,849

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/belgium-population/> 11,589,377


3

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/andorra/> Andorra

855

	52

	799

4

	11,066

673

3,750

48,534

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/andorra-population/> 77,265


4

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/> UK

311,965

+814

43,575

+25

N/A

N/A

276

4,596

642

9,290,215

136,854

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/> 67,884,107


5

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/> Spain

296,050

+200

28,346

+3

N/A

N/A

617

6,332

606

5,162,909

110,425

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/spain-population/> 46,754,725


6

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/> Italy

240,436

+126

34,744

+6

189,196

16,496

96

3,977

575

5,341,837

88,350

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/italy-population/> 60,462,004


7

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/> Sweden

65,137

	5,280

	N/A

N/A

171

6,450

523

444,607

44,025

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/sweden-population/> 10,098,898


8

 <https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/> France

162,936

	29,778

	75,649

57,509

634

2,496

456

1,384,633

21,213

 <https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/france-population/> 65,272,959

 

 

Belgium’s death rate is worse than Sweden and USA combined.

 

Bright spot for that beleaguered country: if we look at the Covid death rate of New York City, it is over five times worse than Belgium, three times worse than big number 1 San Marino.

 

Can anyone offer a theory or an explanation for why these particular countries have been so hard hit?

 

Must we disregard this data, considering it is a full 19 minutes outdated?

 

spike

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