Covid 19 -

[russellw]

Originally Posted by cheap

No doubt the USA has many cases, but I think the individual members of the EU should be treated as one combined statistic - they are after all forever harping on about being United.

You'll find the EU is way ahead of the USA in deaths/cases.

Let's not let facts get in the way of a good hypothesis.

Since when is the EU a country? It's not. I've separately listed the continents but for those not paying attention here is that graph currently.



This compares percentage of global population with percentage of cases and percentage of deaths.

The key takeaways:

Europe has a 21.4% higher population base than North America.

North America is rapidly closing the gap to Europe for number of cases and will pass them in the next week or so even though you'd expect Europe to be 21% higher.

In terms of cases per 100k of population, Europe is at 185.2 and North America at 197.2 so whatever way you cut it their case rate is higher.

Europe does have twice the number of deaths that North America has so in that sense their performance is worse. The rate per 100k is 17.9 for Europe and 11.5 for North America.

Both are underperforming in terms of infections although Europe is worse. North America has 7.4% of the global population but 35.6% of the cases and 29.2% of the deaths. Europe has 9.5% of the population but 42% of the cases and 58.5% of the deaths.

South America is about level in terms of cases with 5.4% of the population and 5.1% of the cases and ahead in deaths with only 3.55%.

Africa, Asia and Oceania are all well ahead of the curve. Africa has the least cases per 100k (3.06) followed by Asia (11.06) and Oceania (21.73).

The order is slightly altered for deaths per 100k with Africa (0.13) still leading ahead of Oceania (0.282), Asia (0.398) and South America (1.91).