Taiwan: 0.3 per million (7 deaths)
Hong Kong: 1 per million (7 deaths)
China: 3 per million (4,634 deaths)
Singapore: 5 per million (26 deaths)
South Korea: 5 per million (283 deaths)
US: 400 per million (132,147 deaths..and just starting)
Hong Kong: 1 per million (7 deaths)
China: 3 per million (4,634 deaths)
Singapore: 5 per million (26 deaths)
South Korea: 5 per million (283 deaths)
US: 400 per million (132,147 deaths..and just starting)
New Zealand: 4 per million (22 deaths)
Australia: 4 per million (104 deaths)
..
UK: 660 per million (44,131 deaths)
Italy: 580 per million (34,833 deaths)
Spain: 610 per million (28,385 deaths)
Australia: 4 per million (104 deaths)
..
UK: 660 per million (44,131 deaths)
Italy: 580 per million (34,833 deaths)
Spain: 610 per million (28,385 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).
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.
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.
