This idea came to my mind too. However, according to the calculations I made, the house does not win this time. This is not a gamble since the numbers are not random.
So you mean that you can really predict how many people would be affected? Well I think you are right you can use statistics in order to predict the number of cases from the certain country
however I don't think their concept is good to be played about or to placed bet on.Ofcourse.
It's more like people betting on whether an economy will crash or not. The desperate ones could go ahead and crash an economy(or provoke a crash) to win their bet. If you crash the economy, many people will suffer. So this is clearly immoral if bettors gain from people suffering/misfortunes.
The joy of gambling is certainly above the suffering of other people, even I don't have the heart to bet on the prediction of being affected by infection (covid-19), it will not be surprising that they only take advantage of uncertain situations, even I will go out not to see this bet.
If a moral person will know what to do even though it is a pleasure in itself we know cases are increasing while they need help not to be at betting.
With the discomfort of players to bet on this kind of game, will be the reason for this betting platform not to find their success in this chosen category. It is not easy to see those numbers while you are at home betting for them.
But interesting if they can ever pull this one off.