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Taiwan: 0.3 per million (6 deaths)
Hong Kong: 0.6 per million (4 deaths)
China: 3 per million (4,633 deaths)
Singapore: 4 per million (20 deaths)
South Korea: 5 per million (255 deaths)

US: 220 per million (73,797 deaths..and just starting)
New Zealand: 4 per million (21 deaths)
Australia: 4 per million (97 deaths)
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UK: 450 per million (30,076 deaths..and just starting)
Italy: 490 per million (29,684 deaths)
Spain: 550 per million (25,857 deaths)
Nations that successfully suppressed outbreak include both small and large, both island and non-island, and both autocratic and democratic.

Sole relevant parameter for success or failure is whether government took prompt resolute action (success) or whether it did not (failure).
Fast and strong response by government equals success.
Slow and weak response by government equals failure.

Every death above 10 per million in a developed nation is the direct result of governmental negligence.
Accountability--Nuremberg-Trials-style accountability--will be required for the tens to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and economic ruin, in nations like US and UK, where governments deliberately chose negligence over response.
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