Numbers and experts, epidemiology and virology, economy and health systems, size and wealth... And yet, the specific way each country decides to fight pandemics is determined by culture and mentality ie social psychology.
Article does notice the impressive gap between West and East Europe (+Greece and Portugal), but fails to mention vaccination (especially BCG) as a possible factor. Consider, former Eastern Germany had 3x less deaths per capita than Western Germany.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/05/why-has-eastern-europe-suffered-less-from-coronavirus-than-the-west …
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Another article, same omission. And no, it's not West/South vs Central/East. It's West vs East, with exception of Portugal. Austria did do well, but not nearly as Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia, all neighboring countries.https://www.ft.com/content/f9850a8d-7323-4de5-93ed-9ecda7f6de1c …
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It's not just me. "This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will donate A$10 million to help fund an Australian trial testing whether a very old vaccine, BCG, can be used against a new threat, COVID-19."https://theconversation.com/could-bcg-a-100-year-old-vaccine-for-tuberculosis-protect-against-coronavirus-138006 …
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"...mandatory BCG was associated with a significantly slower climb in both confirmed cases and deaths... those w/o universal BCG vaccination, such as Italy, US, and Netherlands, were more severely affected..."https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/an-old-tb-vaccine-finds-new-life-in-coronavirus-trials-67504 …
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Again, no mention of BCG. The stark reality of low covid deaths in a number of poorer countries (Eastern Europe plus Greece and Portugal) is conveniently explained away or simply ignored.https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/central-and-eastern-europeans-in-avant-garde-of-tackling-the-covid19-pandemic-66227/ …
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Hey, rich countries, a picture is worth a thousand words.pic.twitter.com/MLTiRsaBRI
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context. What happens when borders reopen? Only mass vaccination solves the issue, and that's not coming soon. Meanwhile, costs off all sorts are growing.