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Northern Hemisphere countries with contrasting strategies 8/31/20
Observations:
- In terms of total confirmed cases the United stands out as the leader. India is next in line.
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Here we chose 9 countries in the Northern hemisphere with contrasting approaches to how they responded to the pandemic. All except India have high per capita incomes. The countries are:
Name | Population (K) | Region | Income per capita ($) | Pop-Density (Kpop/sq-km) | Median Age (yrs) |
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Canada | 37742.154 | N America | 46510 | 0.004 | 41.4 |
Denmark | 5792.202 | N Europe | 54356 | 0.134 | 42.3 |
Germany | 83783.942 | W Europe | 52556 | 0.235 | 46.6 |
India | 1380004.39 | S Asia | 7166 | 0.42 | 28.2 |
Japan | 126476.461 | E Asia | 42067 | 0.335 | 48.2 |
Sweden | 10099.265 | N Europe | 51405 | 0.022 | 41 |
Taiwan | 23816.775 | E Asia | undef | 0.658 | 42.2 |
United Kingdom | 67886.011 | W Europe | 44920 | 0.279 | 40.8 |
United States | 331002.651 | N America | 59928 | 0.035 | 38.3 |
Observations:
- In terms of total confirmed cases the US stands out as the leader with almost 6 million cases. India is next in line with almost 3.7 million cases.
- If one looks at the fraction of a country's population (in terms of cases/.million population) then again the US leads. The runner up is Sweden with about half the cases, followed by the UK, Canada, Germany and Denmark running neck and neck, India, with Japan at 1/5th of india, but increasing, and Taiwan with about 1/25th of Japan's cases/million population.
- Confirmed cases continue to rise in all countries except Japan
- The log10 scale plot assists in seeing the differences between Japan and Taiwan.
- The steepest rises in confirmed cases per day per million population are for the US (~125 confirmed cases/day/million population) and India (~50 confirmed cases/day/million population).
- Deaths tell a similar story with the US leading with 183K deaths, followed by India with 65K deaths and the UK with 41.5K deaths.
- Deaths are still climbing in the US (~2.5/day/million population) and India (~0.6/day/million population) while other countries have pretty much stabilized at under 0.25 deaths/day/million population.
- The ratio of deaths/confirmed cases is highest for the UK followed by Canada and Sweden, followed by Germany and Denmark. The ratio is dropping with time.
Top ten countries with Covid-19 cases 8/9/20
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