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Originally Posted by Pierre
Of course we accept statistics from other countries as accurate and Gospel, just our government that are inept n’er do wells that manipulate the numbers.
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But we're not manipulating the numbers and neither is there a suggestion France, Spain or Italy are.
It does look like we're going to have the worst death toll in Europe.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It's bound to be higher as the US has a higher population. It is ludicrous to compare infection rates and deaths between countries in absolute numbers. Compare deaths per million and you get a more realistic comparison, but even that takes no account of population density.
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It is debatable if comparing deaths per million is as effective here because we're talking about managing the spread of virus. The more people there is then the more people it could *eventually* spread too but in the early stages of a pandemic then it's about how quickly it's spreading though a small number of the population.
i.e There is no reason for New York to have a higher death rate than London because the U.S.A as a whole has more people on it. Population density on the other hand....