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Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: April 24 Update

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Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through April 24. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

10 thoughts on “Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: April 24 Update”

  1. rick_jones

    Rank Population (Millions) Country Deaths/Day/Million
    1 9.68 Hungary 21.26
    2 3.30 Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.96
    3 3.46 Uruguay 17.95
    4 2.08 North Macedonia 15.84
    5 7.00 Bulgaria 14.71
    6 37.89 Poland 12.81
    7 211.05 Brazil 12.06 *
    8 32.51 Peru 11.61
    9 7.04 Paraguay 11.17
    10 5.46 Slovakia 10.86
    ...
    15 10.47 Greece 7.54
    16 44.78 Argentina 7.37 *
    17 10.69 Czechia 7.00
    18 2.96 Armenia 6.86
    19 11.69 Tunisia 6.28
    20 1.33 Estonia 5.93
    21 4.04 Moldova 5.69
    22 60.55 Italy 5.53 *
    23 10.10 Jordan 5.44
    24 444.97 EU 5.26
    25 18.95 Chile 5.18
    26 6.86 Lebanon 4.83
    27 4.98 West Bank and Gaza 4.82
    28 82.91 Iran 4.81
    29 2.76 Lithuania 4.66
    30 65.13 France 4.65 *
    31 512.50 EU w/o Brexit 4.61
    ...
    41 8.96 Austria 3.19
    42 127.58 Mexico 2.94 *
    43 4.00 Georgia 2.93
    44 83.52 Germany 2.80 *
    45 1.64 Bahrain 2.79
    ...
    48 11.51 Bolivia 2.32
    49 329.06 US 2.16 *
    50 2.83 Qatar 2.12
    51 9.75 Honduras 2.07
    52 5.05 Costa Rica 2.04
    53 23.77 Sweden 1.92 *
    54 46.74 Spain 1.86 *
    55 2.95 Jamaica 1.70
    56 17.58 Guatemala 1.67
    57 2.88 Albania 1.59
    58 1366.42 India 1.59
    59 3.23 Mongolia 1.51
    60 8.59 Switzerland 1.48 *
    61 6.78 Libya 1.37
    62 37.41 Canada 1.30 *
    63 17.10 Netherlands 1.30
    ...
    87 52.57 Kenya 0.380
    88 67.53 United Kingdom 0.343 *
    89 126.86 Japan 0.334

    *Currently or formerly tracked by Kevin

    For the undercount files, this anecdote:

    At the city’s [Bhopal] Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat crematorium, workers said they cremated more than 110 people on Saturday, even as government figures in the entire city of 1.8 million put the total number of virus deaths at just 10.

    https://news.yahoo.com/indias-crematoriums-overwhelmed-virus-swallows-073158555.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHzXHMOfjd2jGcYO7LaAHmangkmn8eht32VqyE5AsuxPOP8WodyJN_l91nAsj18ADtOZfA77aaDT0nJLiGVgf-Z-ZtQOkpRwN9Ix2vprJkS69r8qCz4rOxl0cRVra2czcr7ICumVu9L7pPCOU8QdIJ_j8oU4Y8x2z48pDyjDuOAU

    And for the allow travelers or not files: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/covid-19-now-germany-also-bars-entry-of-indian-travellers/articleshow/82243550.cms

    2. lawnorder

      A quick Google tells me that greater Bhopal had a population of 1.8 million in 2011; it's probably closer to 3 million by now. For that population, the normal death rate can be expected to be in excess of 100 per day (deaths per year can be expected to be somewhat more than 1% of the population). If there were 110 cremations on a particular day and 10 of them were said to be covid deaths, that could plausibly be true. The numbers may or may not be accurate, but they're not obviously false.

    3. Jerry O'Brien

      Turkey ranks a few positions below France, at 4.1 or so per million per week, and they were still headed up in case counts until a week ago, so they'll go higher on the death count.

  2. golack

    on the case side....
    NY is coming in...fallen below 25 new cases/day/100K.
    No new states climbing to 25 and most those above have cases falling. CO and FL holding steady. There are still hot spots--so do not get complacent.
    OR was climbing up--but is plateauing below 25. Reported infection rates are lagging indicators.
    It would be great if more states were falling below 10, but no change there.

    Vaccinations range from 30 to 52% (1st shot) plus NH at 59%. And it looks like vaccinations are slowing down. Some states seem to be starting to plateau in the 30-40% range. Other states have hit 50% and are still going strong.

  3. Mitch Guthman

    I would like to make a longer term suggestion. It seems to me that it would be much better to have vaccines developed by government and university partnerships with the understanding that the formula for these vaccines would be available to everyone.

    Similarly, governments could manufacture needed equipment instead of paying middlemen to do it. We’d be in a position to respond faster, better, and less expensively to future pandemics.

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