Some terrifying context: a death rate of 1,000 PER MILLION means 1 death PER THOUSAND or 0.1% of the entire country dead from COVID-19https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1330458659663568902 …
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Health Nerd Retweeted Edouard Mathieu
Some terrifying context: a death rate of 1,000 PER MILLION means 1 death PER THOUSAND or 0.1% of the entire country dead from COVID-19https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1330458659663568902 …
Health Nerd added,
Belgium: 1327
Peru: 1078
Spain: 912
Argentina: 816
Italy: 815
United Kingdom: 805
Brazil: 795
Mexico: 786
Chile: 786
United States: 773
(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=BEL~PER~ESP~ARG~ITA~GBR~BRA~MEX~CHL~USA®ion=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=total&smoothing=0&perCapita=true&pickerMetric=total_deaths_per_million&pickerSort=desc …) pic.twitter.com/hptOqL9ysHIn most of these places, the number of infections is still well below 20% of the country, which gives you some context of the potential deaths to come
If you do the back of the envelope calculations for Belgium, it doesn't appear they are approaching "herd" levels.
They were at about 5% in June, at this point you'd expect 10-15% infected So, yes agreed, nowhere near
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