Beware, not every country measures the number of deaths in the same way, France for instance doesn't count people dying in retirement homes!
And it is quite clear that Iceland and Luxembourg are testing more people than other countries!
2020-03-31
2020-03-22
Corona speed - some European countries
My analysis
is worth what it is worth …
Not sure
that I am right and not sure that this is interesting, but numbers were always
my hobby.
Spain seem
to do it almost worse than Italy!
2020-03-20
Corona or Covid: absolute numbers compared to relative numbers
In the
Belgian newspapers, even the more serious ones you see absolute numbers about
the “Corona” flu, this country that much, this other one ooooh soooo much, etc.
Belgium is
11 million people, China is … too much for my brain, Italy is 60.50 million
people. And newspapers here in my country continue to publish absolute numbers,
not relative ones.
A “relative
number” is publishing numbers compared to – in this case – the population or
demography, as you want to call it, English isn’t my mother tongue.
I saw this graph (see on the right side) on a Belgian newspaper: wrong conclusion, we Belgian (red graph) or Swiss are less infected
than Italy and Spain!
OK … let’s
rework the data …
Today March
20, graph of Covid “confirmed” cases per 1 million people: Italy first, then
Switserland (!), Spain and Norway!
Of course, remember
the word “confirmed”: probably my partner and myself also got the disease, but
in a bearable way, so we wont get tested. Perhaps Switzerland and Norway test
much more people, therefore they report more cases: they belong to the richest
countries of the world!
Please criticize
my analysis, or ask questions when you don't understand my point, welcome, I could be wrong …
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