tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8098114178546018649..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Covid InternationalAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-52693748633401867482020-11-02T11:14:23.673-05:002020-11-02T11:14:23.673-05:00"Our medical teams are much better at treatin..."Our medical teams are much better at treating this and more of those infected are surviving."<br /><br /> Your deaths per million are not impressive. Now your comorbidity load is higher than many countries though, so that's part of it. As well your numbers were removed from the purview of the CDC quite a while ago. I don't trust em'.<br /><br /> BoJo, a man you consider intelligent, has had to shut the country down after fooling around for months. They are also about to leave the EU with no deal, or a very bad one. This is because the racists in Britain engineered this wildly stupid move to keep brown people out. Its likely the union will not survive this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-59538793039837931472020-11-02T09:59:02.135-05:002020-11-02T09:59:02.135-05:00Yes, I am betting that obesity, especially extreme...Yes, I am betting that obesity, especially extreme obesity, is a factor for Americans. As African-Americans have that condition more often, I have wondered how much that is implicated in their increased death rate. That is also a reminder that the US is not entirely like the countries we (I) compare them to. We are much more diverse, and that frequently matters in medical matters.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-57706420568134214292020-11-02T08:50:02.508-05:002020-11-02T08:50:02.508-05:00Here's a useful graphing tool that has data fo...Here's a useful graphing tool that has data for dozens of countries and can display it in a lot of different ways:<br /><br />http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/countries-normalized.html<br /><br />What's surprising to me is that the Case Fatality Rate in the US is fairly high...I would think that number is largely a matter of the quality of medical care someone gets once being diagnoses, although of course demographics (mainly age) and other factors (like obesity) matter too.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65832833732473503262020-11-02T00:07:15.700-05:002020-11-02T00:07:15.700-05:00one fact is pretty clear at this point. Deaths per...<i>one fact is pretty clear at this point. Deaths per 1000 cases are way down.</i><br />For closed cases, 3.7% of COVID cases in the US have resulted in death. (total deaths)/((total deaths)+ (total recovered)).From the graph I copied on April 15, the death rate was 40%- compared to 3.7% today.<br /><br />Which is why I used to copy the spreadsheets daily, but now just take a weekly look at the graphs online.RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-64765926069587594552020-11-01T21:33:35.083-05:002020-11-01T21:33:35.083-05:00Or, sadly, we may already have infected and killed...Or, sadly, we may already have infected and killed many of the most vulnerable.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.com