An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown

Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown by threatripper on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:07AM (#30967318)

Besides the statistical anomaly at the end (probably a one time correction for some past cases) the US death rate has always been higher. So the gap has been widening until now. Look at cumulative cases.

Only the derivative of the gap, the daily deaths per capita, has been narrowing. I agree that the daily numbers should become similar when prior immunity due to vaccination or infection becomes similar (all else being equal). But that does not erase the huge amount of deaths before people got their first vaccine.

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Re:An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown by jefftk on Saturday April 09, 2022 @09:29PM (#30973703)

Good point! In cumulative deaths per million:

                  US   AUS  delta
    2022-01-01  2477    87   2360
    2022-02-01  2673   141   2532
    2022-03-01  2852   204   2648
    2022-04-01  2948   247   2701

I didn't look closely at the graph and I misread the recent apparent spike, which I agree with you is likely some kind of correction.

I'm sorry I can't go back and edit my comment!

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