so i got bored and i put together the per capita numbers on this whole thing, because people are only talking about total numbers, when any idiot on the block can tell you that 1<>1 when talking about things regarding populations. So to see whats up in a clearer view i threw together some information using a current covid case tracking website on Saturday.
i tossed out any country with less than a million people, and less than 1000 confirmed cases. and ranked based off of three categories - Infection, Deaths, Tests. Now my data is a few days old and doesnt account for the USA fluxuation since saturday when i built it out- so theres that small caveat.
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Heres how USA ITALY SPAIN UK SOKO CHINA and INDIA stack up.
* Ranking is done based on the top 50 countries that have two criteria: Over 1000 Reported cases, and at least 300k in population.
USA
Reported Infection P.C.: 0.0891%
INF RANK: 13th
Reported Deaths P.C.: 0.0024%
DEATH RANK: 14th
Reported Tests P.C.: 0.42534%
TESTING RANK: 23
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ITALY
Reported Infection P.C.: 0.2061%
INF RANK: 6th
Reported Deaths P.C.: 0.0254%
DEATH RANK: 1st
Reported Tests P.C.:1.08668%
TESTING RANK: 10th
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SPAIN
Reported Infection P.C.: 0.2673%
INF RANK:3rd
Reported Deaths P.C.: 0.0254%
DEATH RANK: 2nd
Reported Tests P.C.: 0.76082%
TESTING RANK: 14th
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UK
Reported Infection P.C.: 0.0631%
INF RANK:19th
Reported Deaths P.C.:0.00649%
DEATH RANK:5TH
Reported Tests P.C.:0.27572%
TESTING RANK:25th
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SOKO
Reported Infection P.C.: 0.0197%
INF RANK: 30th
Reported Deaths P.C.:0.00034%
DEATH RANK: 30th
Reported Tests P.C.: 0.88407%
TESTING RANK: 12th
***NOTE: Reports have come out that SOKO's testing methods were only accurate in about 30% of cases, which would increase their rates by about 2-3X if true*** - While soko does present as the country that is handling this infection the best, their testing methods could be causing a misrepresentation.
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INDIA
Reported Infection P.C.:0.0002%
INF RANK:50th
Reported Deaths P.C.: 0.00001%
DEATH RANK: 25th
Reported Tests P.C.:0.00871%
TESTING RANK: 46th
NOTE: INDIA has about the same population size of china, but some of the worst health care, and public health in the world. I highly suspect that they fall so low in the spectrum due to MASSIVE under reporting. i dont have access to data in india to know one way or the other. its kind of a reporting black hole.
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CHYNA
Reported Infection P.C.: 0.0059%
INF RANK: 37th
Reported Deaths P.C.:0.00024%
DEATH RANK: 31st
Reported Tests P.C.: NOT AVAILABLE
TESTING RANK: 50TH
NOTE: If you can look at this data, and still think that china did not completely and totally lie to all of us about their numbers, you are a moron and do not deserve your brain. There is no physically possible way, that western countries, who generally have the best health care facilities in the world, with a fraction of the chinese population, have some how outpaced china in every single possible negative category.
To put this into perspective: China is reporting a case load FORTY FIVE TIMES LOWER PER CAPITA THAN SPAIN. for reference, spain has about 46 million people, whereas china has 1.3 BILLION. almost thirty times the population.
China has also been in this outbreak SIGNIFICANTLY longer than every other involved country.
Some more information:
The country with the Higest Case Rate per capita: Luxembourg at 0.43% of its population being reported as infected
The country with the higest deaths per capita: Italy, at 0.02% of its population having been killed by this virus.
the country with the highest testing per capita: iceland, at just over 6% of their population being administered a test.
The country with the lowest case rate per capita: india at 0.0002%
The country with the lowest death rate per capita: India at 0.00001%
The country with the lowest testing rates (with data): Indonesia at 0.00272%