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Can anyone explain this? (from
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavir...ormed-each-day) Austria population: 9 million UK population: 67 million Austria new cases: 1800 7 day average UK new cases: 34000 7 day average Austria in hospital: 644/221 IC 7 day average UK in hospital: 7000/829 IC 7 day average Austria fully vax: 61% of full population UK fully vax: 67% of full population Everything seems to be out of proportion as between population, cases (in particular), hospitalisation and IC ratio. Any ideas? |
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We do a lot of LFT and PCRs so more likely to find people with the virus in them and mild/no illness. Also don't forget how your hospitalisations are measured - is it people who went in with Covid or other things who then tested positive and what about people who caught Covid in hospital? Are they counted? Is the figure a fair test between countries? |
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What’s the vaccine/efficacy mix?
The first thing I’ve gleamed from a cursory Google is that Austria extended vaccinations to 12-15 year olds months ago, and school age (particularly high school age) is where Covid is most prevalent in the UK. Austria could, despite a lower vaccination rate, be much closer to herd immunity than we are if there’s a better distribution of vaccination across the population. It’s not an absolute number. |
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Austria: 39 tests/1000 people UK: 13 tests/1000 people So, that's even more out of proportion. |
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To be honest, I wasn't even sure what your question was :)
Basically each country does things their own way. e.g. Who is eligible for a test? Do you have to pay? How ill do you have to be to get hospitalised or into IC?... IIRC, in the early days Vietnam hospitalised every case. And the US is about to massively increase the amount of testing it does (stable door, anyone?) https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...e-covid-tests/ |
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We record all deaths from Covid, others do not. And so on. If we are going to compare our figures with those of other countries, it must be on a like-for-like basis otherwise they are practically worthless. |
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For example, the ONS stats record deaths caused by Covid 19, not by patients who had Covid 19. Other UK stats record patients who died with Covid 19 where it was present but always not the cause. |
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“A like for like basis” is a convenient straw for some to clutch to in order to avoid unfavourable comparisons. Seph has drawn us towards a very interesting observation here that shouldn’t be easily dismissed. There could be something useful to learn from comparisons, but there of course has to be a willingness and not just a belief grounded on quicksand that we must be the best in the world. |
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