Quote (SylvesterStallone @ 11 Jul 2021 22:20)
no?
USA:
Population: 332987277
Deaths: 622843
Percentage: 0.18%
India
Population: 1393864619
Deaths: 408792
Percentage: 0.029%
Brazil
Population: 214103928
Deaths: 532949
Percentage: 0.248%
wanna do smaller countries?
sure
Poland
Population: 37804168
Deaths: 75160
Percentage: 0.198%
Ireland:
Population: 4994114
Deaths: 5006
Percentage: 0.10%
yeah you're right, it's not 0.5%
it's more like 0.2% on average. thanks for the heads up. I thought fo this whole time that we're losing 0.5% of population that is also 65+ on average, while it's actually 0.2%. glad we opened it cos I'd never check this out myself.
oh yeah, btw...source is also not any bs website, it's this one:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ The relevant quantity to describe covid's lethality is the so-called Infection Fatality Rate (IFR). It is defined as the share of infected persons who die from the disease. This number is prone to bias due to an underreporting of deaths (definitely the case in most third world countries like, e.g., India) and because asymptomatic infections are missed and not included in the denominator. It is also extremely dependent on the local or country-wide age distribution. Countries with a very old population will have a higher IFR than very young ones.
Serious studies estimate the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) at around 0.5% in Western countries. For comparison: the IFR of the seasonal flu stands at around 0.05%, or one tenth of covid's.
Generally speaking, it makes no sense to compare deaths with the overall population since this ratio is heavily affected by the countermeasures. If anything, getting to 0.2% deaths out of the overall population in spite of costly, large-scale countermeasures is an argument in favor of covid's dangerousness, not against it.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 11 2021 05:17pm