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Originally Posted by russellw

I've expanded the data set from yesterday to include some other countries that are doing OK in terms of either their case or mortality rates per 100K of population.

It's starting to show some interesting trend data in as much as some of the warmer regions are doing better at the moment with countries like Colombia (9.1) and Brazil (20.3) having case rates per 100k below both Australia and NZ and even their mortality rate per 100k isn't much worse than ours at 0.4 and 1.2 respectively although their CMR is a fair bit worse (4.4% & 6.3%), perhaps pointing to the availability / quality of health care as a factor. It also doesn't necessarily follow that colder climes are doing worse because while some are faring poorly (like the UK), some (like Russia) are faring really well so it seems logical that the measures that are being put in place have more impact than environmental factors on the infection rates.

Other points of note:

Belgium has the worst CMR with 14.287% of identified cases resulting in death. The UK is next worst at 13.41% with Italy not far behind at 13.19%.

Spain has the highest case rate per 100k of population with 494.4 but Italy isn't far behind with 467.3. This is probably also a factor in the CMR because the number of critical care beds per 100k of population at 8.5 (Spain) and 8.6 (Italy), while similar to ours (Australia 8.9), is likely to be below the number of patients requiring that care. While on that subject, the USA has about 25 per 100k as long as you can afford it while the UK has about 3.4.

It is no surprise then that Italy (61.4), Belgium (55.7) and Spain (51.8) have the highest number of deaths per 100k of population.

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What about Costa Rica?