Here are the charts for Canada, where it seems cases/day has already peaked, and deaths/day is just about to.
Canada's cases per capita is only 39% of the US's, and deaths per capita only 26%. Colder weather? Better citizens? Further back in the infection curve? Better health care system? Less traffic coming in from the rest of the world? Better leadership?
South Korea tested early and often and has kept the virus under control. Canada has caught up with SK, but suffered for not having this rigour out of the gate. USA is still playing catch up.
Our World in Data has a good visualization of tests/thousand. By March 18 Canada had done 6.5x as many tests per capita as the USA, but S. Korea had done 25 times as many.
new record high "New Case" on April 23rd of 1920. Record for new deaths was 185 on April 16th. Looking at the trend, it still doesn't look like new deaths is slowing down: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/
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Also great news!
Do you have any theories on why the illness is less severe than in the US?
I think contact tracing early on was important.
South Korea tested early and often and has kept the virus under control.
Canada has caught up with SK, but suffered for not having this rigour out of the gate.
USA is still playing catch up.
Our World in Data has a good visualization of tests/thousand. By March 18 Canada had done 6.5x as many tests per capita as the USA, but S. Korea had done 25 times as many.
It still looks like total cases have peaked, but deaths have not. There were 123 deaths reported yesterday. 16% increase.
We had a "new case" record high in Canada of 1,821 on the 17th. Hopefully that was the peak?
new record high "New Case" on April 23rd of 1920. Record for new deaths was 185 on April 16th. Looking at the trend, it still doesn't look like new deaths is slowing down: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/
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