There is literally only 1 party - all other parties are destroyed, their members arrested or banned, jailed on real or fake cases.
Bangladesh's health care has been horrible even before the pandemic. Air pollution is extremely high. We don't have the infrastructure to handle so many patients - private hospitals are having a hard time handling patients. Public hospitals are even worse. Central oxygen is almost non-existent, lack of proper PPE, masks or proper testing. They only recently started ramping up tests - but the numbers are still very low.
Even with all the hiding and misinformation by the government, the official number is still climbing at an alarming rate.
The US has had more testing per capita than New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, or Canada.
Compared to countries like India and Bangladesh, the US has had well over an order of magnitude more testing.
I'm looking at the main chart, second to last column, at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Or they might just not have the resources to get accurate statistics and ascertain cause of death due to the virus.
Vitamin-D supplements turned around my life like a miracle. Nowadays I pop myself with every single vitamin-<anything> tablet in the market.
I tried Sunlight, but Sunlight in northern latitudes is a joke.
It's more about the colour of skin * place of residence interaction than anything else.
hahaha, brilliant!
Now, how much time UK citizens spent in the sun compared to those in other countries is a different question, but "less sun" doesn't appear to be the answer at face value.
[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat... [2] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
More sunshine isn't enough.
Let's just say I've been taking my Vit-Ds for the last 3 months!
As of 2017, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,439,007 or 24.1% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[22] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Migrati...
Immigrants constituted 13% of the population at the start of 2015, and an additional 2.6% were born in Norway by immigrant parents[12] (up from 8,3% and 1,5% in 2006[13]). The same year, 19% of births in Norway were to immigrant parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Norway#Ethnici...
And in both countries almost half of the immigrants come from Europe or similar latitudes.
This doesn't explain the factor 10 difference in outcome.
This was said in response to the statement that Sweden has 10x more deaths than Norway.
Sweden has a pop. of 10M with 3K deaths.
Florida has a pop. of 20M with 2566 deaths and not much of a lockdown.
It seems to me that the death rate is a function of how well protected the elderly are and in particular if C19 has gotten into long term care homes as it has in MA (62% of MA C19 deaths in long term care homes) and I think Sweden, but Florida locked down its LTC homes at the beginning of March.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/05/26/nursin...
29 million people with only 1,734 deaths, and 4 of the 11 largest US cities.
If you scale Norway to Texas on population, you would get 1,000 deaths.
If you scale Finland to Texas, you would get 1,700 deaths.
Texas did as well as Finland with five times the population, with barely any lockdown.
It's the climate. The same reason Greece did so well. The same reason Rome didn't get hit like Milan (when it should have been hit far worse).
It's why all of San Diego County only has 283 deaths with a population of 3.3 million.
And it's why formerly hard hit locations are starting to open up: their temperatures have climbed enough to slow the virus. NYC will be fully open this Summer and yet the virus won't be ravaging the city like it previously did, and this is why.
The Italian doctor - Alberto Zangrillo - that recently made headlines by saying the virus was fading in potency? That's the higher temperatures reducing the potential of the virus to transmit, it's reducing the viral loads they're seeing. We already knew to expect this, that's why numerous experts were predicting the virus would fade as the seasons changed and temps climbed.
I'm not sure I buy into the climate aspect (Brazil?) ... as for the "fading potency" theory? Maybe. But could it be that as it spreads asymptomatically through the healthy, younger population we're seeing the beginnings of some sort of herd immunity? "They" say we need 60-80% which we're not seeing yet, but clearly it's not going to be a "binary" thing where the spread suddenly stops when we get to 80%.
I think if you separate the spread of SARS-Cov2 from the severe/fatal cases of the C19 disease, what's emerging is that it's the elderly and "infirm" that are dying, but not the remainder of the population (aside from those with health issues). Perhaps the death rate correlates to 1) how much SARS-Cov2 has spread asymptomatically within the healthy population and 2) how much of that asymptomatic but healthy population have _interacted_ with elderly people / long term care homes (thus introducing SARS-Cov2 which is devastating to them).
Internationally, Brazil is outstripping the US in new cases, and India, Russia, Pakistan, and many others are ahead of the western European countries people are still discussing.
The character of the epidemic has changed rapidly and people don't seem to be paying attention.
People are having discussions and making pronouncements as though the epidemic is over, or at least no longer rapidly evolving and can be judged in retrospect.
States that had more new cases the other day than NY or NJ:
California, Texas, North Carolina, Illinois, Arizona...
There are about fifty countries with more new cases recently than Italy. Do you think those countries are all really cold or something?
The much lower viral loads in Italy could be a result of other things such as widespread mask usage.
I think you could well be on to something. But there are still too many questions to be certain that heat is slowing transmission.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 2,118% larger than Massachusetts.
So the 10M residents of Sweden are much more spread than in MA. Also MA was late in how they have dealt with Covid and the number of cases was progressing much faster.
Probably not. Swedes are a fairly urban people, many living in blocks of flats in cities.
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Stockholm:
Population (31 December 2019)[3][4][5]
• Capital city 975,904
• Density 5,200/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
• Urban[6] 1,605,030
• Urban density 4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
• Metro 2,377,081
• Metro density 360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Population (2019)[2][3][4][5][6]
• City 692,600
• Density 14,344/sq mi (5,538/km2)
• Urban 4,180,000 (US: 10th)
• Metro 4,628,910 (US: 10th)[1]
The situation would probably be very different if they have the equipment and training to deal with it. Many were even threatened to be fired if they put on face masks.
There are plenty of dark skinned Norwegians, Finns and Danes these days.
It's not that.
Sweden tested a lax social distancing approach and it backfired.