the pandemic has exceeded the loss of life on that Tuesday morning years ago, September 11th.

[dawg day]

2. Interesting stats re: Canada

Canada's population is about 11% of the US. It should be noted that Canada is also a multicultural population with a disparity in wealth and geography-- a very similar geography, in fact, with the population mostly in the east and a couple big western cities.


Total US cases: 175,000
Canada: 7500
(Canada has about 4.2% of the cases that the US does-- with 11% of the pop, so less than half of our model)

Total cases / recoveries:
US: 175000/6000 = 3% have recovered
Canada: 7500/1020 13% have recovered


Total recoveries/deaths:
US: 6000/3400= so about 1.8 recoveries per death
Canada: 1020/89= about 11.5 recoveries per death.

What does this show? Given that Canada doesn't have any vaccine or treatment that we don't have access too...
Well, the value of a much smaller population which won't overwhelm the health system, definitely.
But also perhaps the value of point-of-service payment-free national health. No one in Canada is afraid to go to a doctor or hospital for lack of ability to pay. So they were probably as a population much healthier going in, so less likely to die of complications, and much more willing to get treatment quickly when the worst can still be contained.




Stats from https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

They update constantly, so the numbers will have changed.