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On 07/05/2020 13:52, John K Clark wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">India is not a
country that usually springs to mind when you think of good
hygiene practices but even India has handled the COVID-19
pandemic better than the USA has. Much better. India reported
its first case of the virus about the same time the US did and
its first death occurred just 2 weeks after the first in the
US, but as of May 7 at 12:05 GMT India has only had 1,787
deaths, but the USA has had 74,810 deaths. And yet India's
population is 3.9 times as large as the US population.</font></div>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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<font size="4">And Haiti is the poorest country in the Western
Hemisphere but in the entire population of 10.7 million people
there has only been 12 deaths, if Haiti had the same population
as the US it would have had 368 deaths. I remind you that the US
has had 74,810.</font></blockquote>
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Interesting.<br>
I can't help wondering if this has more to do with genetics than
with different countries' responses?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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