I recalculated the CFR with updated numbers:
USA | 2.70 | 3.4 | | ---- padding --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Spain | 9.47 | 10 | | |
Italy | 12.33 | 12.67 | | |
Germany | 1.50 | 2.07 | | |
France | 8.40 | 9.62 | ++ | |
China | 4.08 | 4.07 | * | |
Iran | 6.19 | 6.21 | | |
UK | 10.29 | 11.69 | | |
Turkey | 2.09 | 2.12 | | |
Switzerland | 3.25 | 3.92 | | |
Belgium | 7.35 | 10.1 | ++ | |
Netherlands | 9.93 | 11.01 | ++ | |
Canada | 1.67 | 2.24 | | |
Austria | 1.73 | 2.25 | | |
Portugal | 2.58 | 2.93 | | |
Brazil | 4.60 | 5.07 | | |
S. Korea | 1.79 | 1.96 | | |
Israel | 0.57 | 0.81 | | |
Sweden | 5.79 | 8.68 | ++ | |
Australia | 0.60 | 0.84 | | |
Norway | 1.10 | 1.69 | | |
Russia | 0.90 | 0.75 | * | |
Czech Republic | 1.39 | 1.95 | | |
Chile | 0.65 | 0.87 | | |
Denmark | 3.95 | 4.21 | | |
Poland | 2.19 | 3.07 | | |
Iceland | 0.28 | 0.37 | | |
Egypt | 6.64 | 6.6 | * | |
New Zealand | 0.10 | 0.08 | * | |
Morocco | 6.88 | 7.13 | | |
Iraq | 6.38 | 5.74 | * | |
Hungary | 4.40 | 6.73 | ++ | |
Bulgaria | 3.45 | 3.93 | | |
Belarus | 1.14 | 1.22 | | |
Palestine | 0.44 | 0.38 | * | |
2nd column is what I posted last time, a few days ago, 3rd is today. The rate has increased almost everywhere. Asterisks are the few that actually decreased. ++ is where the rate increased by more than 1%.
We know that the US admits to counting
any cases
with covid-1984. With 3.4% CFR for them, it's hard to imagine what the countries in the red are doing, especially since the countries around them, like Germany or Austria, are around 2%. (Well, we know that 88% of the deaths in Italy didn't actually have covid-1984 as the cause of death.)
France has 5 times more than Germany next to it? Spain more than 3 times more than Portugal next to it? The UK looks like it's about to overtake Italy and become death-faker #1 (unless the Netherlands beat them to it... or Belgium).
Sweden is getting worse with the percentage, but they have 793 deaths total, while France has 10,000. Sweden has 79 deaths per 1M population, France 167, Italy 292, Spain 326 (China 2, lol). I'm guessing Sweden doesn't test people who seem OK because why would they, so that would make the death rate higher.
New Zealand is ridiculously under-affected, so the stuff we hear from flashgordonv is just bizarre. There must be like a 100 bigger threats to NZ than this.
Palestinians have been in mandatory self-isolation forever, so they're OK. 263 cases there, 9,755 in Israel.
If this is the same virus everywhere, it's hard to take any of these numbers seriously. I know even the roughly 2% in my country is bloated by cancers, pneumonia, and other things they count. The real case fatality rate for this virus globally is probably under 1%.
According to data obtained from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System website, total U.S. deaths for the first three weeks of March are DOWN 10% from the average of the prior four years for the same three week period.
That's from one of the articles Laura linked. I don't think this stupidemic is going as planned.