Is It a Pandemic Yet?

Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by adventured on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:49AM (#22405029)

And the West is very old, I would expect that to offset the highly developed healthcare systems and resources there.

Median ages:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world...

Countries in the West over 40 at the median:

Germany, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Spain, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Czech, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania, Denmark, Poland, Canada, Slovakia, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Sweden, Belarus, UK, Russia

Germany has half its 83 million population over 48 years of age. Italy is the 5th oldest country at the median. Covid will hit very hard against older populations.

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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by DyslexicAtheist on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:59AM (#22405165)

there is a graph here. don't know how accurate that is though (sample sizes and the fact that the way it is counted has been revised a couple of times already):

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

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