Covid numbers vs deaths, interesting..........

[73hunter]

I read a story on this topic a few weeks ago, it was reported that Canada’s high Covid death rate was due to the better health care here and as a result many elderly people were hanging on where elsewhere in the world they would died before Covid

[kickingfrog]

Who gets sick does play a huge role but the US has been adding 60000 cases a day for the last month or so as their numbers exploded. Deaths lag the infection rate. Of course you have to also take the politics of the numbers into consideration as well.

[johnjyb]

Just sharing something I found really weird/interesting when I was looking a little closer at the covid numbers ............ Unless my math is wrong the Canadian death rate compared to the US is more than double............

As of today...................If these numbers are right........

US...... 4.54 million cases with 154,00 deaths put that at a 3.4% death rate....

Canada...... 116,000 cases with 8,917 deaths puts that at a 7.6% death rate......

I wonder why/how that is..... Stats, (numbers) sometimes can be used to get in the way to the truth?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cana...hrome&ie=UTF-8

From these numbers, I see 2x more deaths per capita in the US then Canada when you just go with total population vs total deaths.
John

[gbk]

I read a story on this topic a few weeks ago, it was reported that Canada’s high Covid death rate was due to the better health care here and as a result many elderly people were hanging on where elsewhere in the world they would died before Covid

Sorry,not challenging,but the number of infected is way less in Canada,but the death rate in the infected is way higher then in the USA.So how that support the claim of our superior health system(as they claim).
Look at Italy for comparison of living long life too.Whole lot of elderly died there-how did they survived that long ,to die from COVID?

How some reports come up with conclusion like that is beyond me.Either they have an agenda ,or they are clueless.

[Badenoch]

This may be the result of Canadians reducing the community transmission by actually taking COVID-19 seriously and not acting like a gang of star-spangled goofs.

Deaths per 1 million people
Canada: 236
USA: 469

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[canadaman30]

The numbers being referred from are reported cases. There's now over 4 million south of the border. The real number of infected is far greater.

[GW11]

The numbers being referred from are reported cases. There's now over 4 million south of the border. The real number of infected is far greater.

Yep. Here's an interesting study that was just done in Alberta. It suggests the real infection numbers there were about 4x what was reported.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...sting-suggests




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[Jakezilla]

The numbers being referred from are reported cases. There's now over 4 million south of the border. The real number of infected is far greater.

Right on

If you want to calculate a true mortality rate you would have to take into account everyone that has had or currently has COVID. That includes everyone who has recovered as well as all the asymptomatic people that were never tested or known.

The death rates in the OP are very far from reality and the true mortality rate is actually much lower. If you then take out all the the shady COVID deaths then the mortality rate drops even more.

COVID is not out of control, but the media's reporting of it is.

[fratri]

Right on

If you want to calculate a true mortality rate you would have to take into account everyone that has had or currently has COVID. That includes everyone who has recovered as well as all the asymptomatic people that were never tested or known.

The death rates in the OP are very far from reality and the true mortality rate is actually much lower. If you then take out all the the shady COVID deaths then the mortality rate drops even more.

COVID is not out of control, but the media's reporting of it is.

Yes the true number of positive cases is definitely higher....... But............It would be the same for any illness, (or past pandemic) not all cases get documented.
Going with these current numbers available, covid is worse than the common flu and the Canadian death rate (percent) seems high....

[canadaman30]

Yep. Here's an interesting study that was just done in Alberta. It suggests the real infection numbers there were about 4x what was reported.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...sting-suggests




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Yes 3-4X more sounds about right. Sadly the younger generation are not going to help, the young party goers are going to spread it around with their lack of respect for any kind of distancing and gatherings...