Covid 19 warning

Tequila wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:

Deb and Ed M wrote:
I have to admit - when the Canadians don't want us germy Americans - it's pretty embarrassing :-)

Right now - we're hoping and praying that Florida's numbers drop as the weather cools and they can spend more time outdoors and hopefully slow the spread? I don't mind winter, but Ed HATES it. "Shovel snow or risk Covid" is where we're at right now....

Well, I like you germy Americans. Don't be embarasssed, it's our crazy media brainwashing the masses that you're all carrying Covid 19, and don't care. Nonsense.
Besides, if you do the math and compare total fatalities to total confirmed cases, the USA loses 3.4 people per hundred cases, Canada has lost 7.7 people per 100 cases, and Mexico has lost a whopping 11.1% of their total cases.
Shovel snow or risk Covid? Too early to call that one. :B

Not sure where you got that stat. When I look it up its 240 per million for Canada and 455 for the US https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Using this website for the total number of cases, and the total number of deaths. It's a more meaningful stat than the deaths per million which is based on population of each country and is meaningless in real terms, since we don't know how many infections there are in the entire population of any country, because the testing isn't that comprehensive anywhere yet. Total deaths as a percentage of total cases gives a more realistic picture of how likely you are to die from the virus, if you're a confirmed case, in any (your own) country.
Divide the total deaths by the total confirmed cases, times 100, gives you the percnetage of deaths within the actual group that has tested postitive for the virus.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I'm assuming this Covod 19 tracker website's numbers are reasonably accurate, as I think I got the link from the WHO or CDC website. There are other Covd Tracker websites but they all seem to get their numbers from this one.