While this graph is interesting and merits study, people need to consider a lot of factors in understanding it. For example it also encapulates how fast the virus is spreading.
For example, Italy has a larger population of old people. One expects them to have faster mortality.
China is untrustworthy. Screw their data.
The USA pours a lot of resources into keeping people alive longer. This results in more medically fragile people surviving in the steady state, absent the virus. Mitigating this is that we have notably more ICU beds and ventilators per capital compared to other countries.
Not sure why Spain is so high, maybe because of how quickly it spread in small areas.
While this graph is interesting and merits study, people need to consider a lot of factors in understanding it. For example it also encapulates how fast the virus is spreading.
For example, Italy has a larger population of old people. One expects them to have faster mortality.
China is untrustworthy. Screw their data.
The USA pours a lot of resources into keeping people alive longer. This results in more medically fragile people surviving in the steady state, absent the virus. Mitigating this is that we have notably more ICU beds and ventilators per capital compared to other countries.
Not sure why Spain is so high, maybe because of how quickly it spread in small areas.
The analyst that made this chart posts for the Financial Times and he has a lot of charts including the spread. His data comes from Johns Hopkins.
I thought this chart is actually most significant as I believe the death rate is the most important thing to understand.