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dividedbyzero on Sept 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. surpasses 200k Covid-19 deaths

At the deaths/100k population of Spain, the US would have about 215k deaths.

At that of Sweden, about 189k.

At that of Belgium, about 286k

Numbers from https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality, assuming a US population of 328 million.

lancewiggs on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

And that of New Zealand: 1,640

Meanwhile our obesity and asthma rates are sky high and we are mostly an urban population. But we have a government that moved fast and well, a single payer health care system, and so on.

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