That depends entirely on what you're looking at. In many cases, it's true, but in this case unless you provide some correction for cases it's a very misleading metric
But this is true of the whole pandemic. Two countries, similar initial numbers, same R0 at every stage will end up with the same total number of infections. Unless those numbers change, your output is the same number of infections. So which one is harder hit?
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I would say that a country that loses a third of its population has been harder hit than one that loses 0.3% of its population.
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Sure. That's an obvious exaggeration of the reality. What about a country that loses 0.00025% vs 0.0003%, where the 0.0003 represents 100 deaths and the 0.00025 represents 10,000?
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