No someone explain me:
- What's wrong with Italy? (More death than any other countries, considering Positives: i.e. fatality rate?
- What's wrong with Germany (Positives in line with other countries, no deaths)
- What's wrong with US/UK (Very few death considering the positives)
I do think the problem is the data source for the stats. There may be differences in health system but not that much.
Things that I think could be relevant here:
- What percentage of the population has been tested for infection? If you only test the ones that come to the hospital in a very ill state you will surely have a very high death rate in comparison to the positives.
- As soon as the hospitals are overhelmed, the death rate do increase... probably a lot.
- If you don't test anyone, all deaths would be attributed to the secondary symptoms instead of the virus.
- There could be genetic and environmental differences, but no study has properly evidenced those.
- There are cultural differences in which citizens of some countries go to the hospital even for a little cold... and those that only go there when they are almost diying.
- There could be differences in the medical treatments... but I assume this would be coordinated and basically the same everywhere. It could be different in an earlier stage but now they all should know better. Or maybe not.........
Main reason, anyways, I would attribute to skewed statistics.
One german died today in hurgada (egypt).
He was there since a week.
German infections are relatively "young" and they started with intensive testing and contact tracing in the beginning.
In Italy, friendly kisses and hugs are part of the culture. This also adds to the explosive increase, also many elderly there. They say it's because of extensive use of olive oil in their cooking.