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I wouldn't want to say that the US is "the loser of the world", but
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most certainly don't make it look like the US is "the winner of the world" - do they.
What is even more depressing is taking Column 11 "Death Chance vs US" and adjusting it by normalizing it according to PPP GDP per capita (which gives a good indication of how much a country can afford to devote to fighting COVID-19). If you do that, you get
Based on that calculation, every single one of the "G-8+China" countries is doing a better job (within their own financial constraints) than the US does (even the UK [once adjusted to account for "economic power"] shows that a person selected at random has a LOWER chance of dying from COVID-19 than does a person selected at random in the United States of America {although, since the UK is within 3.5% of the US, you can call that a tie if you want to}]).
PS - Even though the Chinese data isn't all that reliable, it isn't all that different from the Japanese data so I don't TOTALLY discount it (as there MAY be some "genetic component" associated with the COVID-19 death rate). Which is, of course, a statement which - undoubtedly - will spawn a whole slew of conspiracy/bio-warfare theories.
Thanks for the data; I'll peruse it.. first glance, I thought .. some statistician has too much time and too many gigabytes to play with ! ( a little funny there) .. I'll look at them.
my general attitude about such ...
it is what it is ... the starting point .. a new one each day..
Thanks C ...