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PoindexterOglethorpe

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12. Actually, if you look at deaths per million
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 12:18 AM
Jul 2020

there are 10 countries with worse numbers.

Yeah, we have the most deaths at this point, but we're also the third most populous country in the world. Give India just a little more time. It's going to be a bloodbath there. And I'm willing to guess that their deaths are under reported by a significant factor. It's possible their total case numbers are accurate, given how relatively little testing they're doing.

A lot of African countries will never be reporting accurate numbers. Some years from now the best we'll ever be able to do will be to see if we can find out the excess deaths over the same period a year before. Or two or three years before if this lasts that long. Which it may well do.

I have found this https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries to be very useful. Especially because you can sort each of the columns so as to quickly find whatever you want to find.

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Sigh. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #1
Not the entire planet Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #2
And Brazil! soothsayer Jul 2020 #3
You're probably right. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #4
Actually, if you look at deaths per million PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #12
I think it is a youth thing Skittles Jul 2020 #5
Yeah, I agree. Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #6
young people, partying and thinking they're invincible Skittles Jul 2020 #7
I know flying rabbit Jul 2020 #8
ESPECIALLY for children Skittles Jul 2020 #11
To make it worse, think flying rabbit Jul 2020 #13
oh wow Skittles Jul 2020 #14
Same reason they don't vote JI7 Jul 2020 #9
yeah Skittles Jul 2020 #10
I almost immediately knew it was Florida before I clicked on this. Initech Jul 2020 #15
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