Canadian COVID-19 News

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by danstanford

Can you tell if this chart is raw numbers or adjusted for population? It appears to be total cases in which case a direct comparison is not all that valuable given the 10 times US population compared to Canada.

The graph is deaths per million, so yes adjusted for population. It's pretty shocking, isn't it?

[danstanford]

Originally Posted by sv_pelagia

It is RATE PER MILLION POPULATION (so yes, adjusted for population.)

USA current death rate is about 5x to 6x that of Canada.

Of course, I was so busy looking at numbers that I did not see that. Sorry for the useless question.
Dan

[sv_pelagia]

Originally Posted by danstanford

Of course, I was so busy looking at numbers that I did not see that. Sorry for the useless question.

Dan

No problem. Your question allowed us to make it clear.

[sv_pelagia]

An anti-vaxxer Edmonton Oiler got COVID and now his hockey career might be over

During the pandemic, forward Josh Archibald made his views about COVID known on social media, tweeting COVID-denial information...

https://news.google.com/articles/CBM...A&ceid=CA%3Aen

[kmacdonald]

Originally Posted by danstanford

Can you tell if this chart is raw numbers or adjusted for population? It appears to be total cases in which case a direct comparison is not all that valuable given the 10 times US population compared to Canada.

There are additional details in the fine print of the graph. It more or less says the death rate may not have been tallied the same for both countries.

[Scorpius]

[QUOTE=sv_pelagia;3496006]It is RATE PER MILLION POPULATION (so yes, adjusted for population.)
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USA current death rate is about 5x to 6x that of Canada.[/QUOTE

Hmm.i just ran the numbers from scratch this morning (total reported Covid deaths divided by total population for each country) and came up with around 0.1% for Canada and 0.2% for the US - so I'm not sure where you got 5 to 6 times.

[sv_pelagia]

[QUOTE=Scorpius;3496023]

Originally Posted by sv_pelagia

It is RATE PER MILLION POPULATION (so yes, adjusted for population.)

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USA current death rate is about 5x to 6x that of Canada.[/QUOTE



Hmm.i just ran the numbers from scratch this morning (total reported Covid deaths divided by total population for each country) and came up with around 0.1% for Canada and 0.2% for the US - so I'm not sure where you got 5 to 6 times.

Note I indicated CURRENT death rate. So compare end points (October)

Death rate Oct 3:
Canada: 1.15/million
USA: 5.45/million

4.7x greater

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by kmacdonald

There are additional details in the fine print of the graph. It more or less says the death rate may not have been tallied the same for both countries.

...ok. Go on...

[sv_pelagia]

Another one to set the phaser to....

(Don't get sucked in... irrelevant details etc... though the fine print does NOT imply counting differences between USA & Canada could account for large diff)

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by danstanford

Can you tell if this chart is raw numbers or adjusted for population? It appears to be total cases in which case a direct comparison is not all that valuable given the 10 times US population compared to Canada.

The chart’s title includes the phrase: “deaths PER MILLION PEOPLE”, in the largest font, on the page.


My friend told me that my comprehension skills were piss poor.
How dare he say I piss on the poor?!

[jbinbi]

Originally Posted by Scorpius

If everyone gets vaccinated we would knock this virus out and there would be no opportunity for a vaccine-resistant variant to develop. However, with the great number of people who haven't been vaccinated, many of whom, presumably including you, REFUSING to be vaccinated, the ground remains fertile for new variants, including vaccine-resistant ones, to develop.

It's our, and science's, worst nightmare.

Not Canadian so pls excuse me for posting, but wanted to write something germane to this post:

It is has been estimated that the total population of homo sapiens throughout the history of our species is between 60 and 100 Billion. It is also estimated that up until a 150 years ago, your chance of dying from a microscopic organism, meaning virus or bacteria was about 30 to 50%.

These numbers aren't exact and it really doesn't make a difference if you are at the high or low end of the estimates.

It means that your life wasn't ended as much by a saber tooth tiger or a spear as much as smallpox, the plague, measles, etc. etc.

What dramatically changed this was the realization that innoculation of smallpox and then cowpox could slow/stop smallpox and then the invention of antibiotics in the past 75 years.

We have virtually wiped out polio, smallpox, and the measles. Killers of say 1/3 of humanity.

To those who say that the Covid vaccine hasn't been researched enough, it is too new, etc., and don't understand mRNA, then go get the J&J vaccine. It is the same tech as all previous ones.

Scorpius's post is 1000% correct. We have the opportunity to wipe this virus from the earth, yet some are too dumb to realize that we are giving it the chance to mutate and create something that we won't be able to control.

[danstanford]

Originally Posted by GordMay

The chart’s title includes the phrase: “deaths PER MILLION PEOPLE”, in the largest font, on the page.


My friend told me that my comprehension skills were piss poor.
How dare he say I piss on the poor?!

I wouldn't dare do that but I did miss the largest font hiding in plain sight!

[GordMay]

I apologise, for over-reacting, Dan. You didn't deserve that.

[Scorpius]

[QUOTE=sv_pelagia;3496025]

Originally Posted by Scorpius

Note I indicated CURRENT death rate. So compare end points (October)

Death rate Oct 3:
Canada: 1.15/million
USA: 5.45/million

4.7x greater

Ahh, I used totals from the beginning of the pandemic.

[Scorpius]

N.L.'s COVID-19 hospitalizations tick up to 14, second-highest total since start of pandemic

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...2021-1.6198955


We certainly have a varied situation across the country!