Hardly any countries have much of an idea of deaths due to COVID-19 either. None of the data collection is perfect at this point, it's true for every metric you could conceivably use
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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We seem to agree that, at some point, the proportion of the population that die is more important than the absolute numbers. IMO, that point has been reached with COVID-19 when comparing, say, Sweden with Germany.
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Every metric tells you something. Some are much less useful than others for direct comparisons
And I personally don't think you need deaths per million to know that Sweden is doing badly! - Show replies
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