Every day, in each country, the terrible toll of new deaths occurring after a covid-19 falls: several dozen, often several hundred additional deaths.
And totals that exceed a thousand, tens of thousands, up to more than 65,000 deaths in the United States.
Absolute data …
But these figures are absolute figures, which do not take into account the population of each country.
If those of Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany or France are – relatively – close, it is quite different for the United States … or Belgium.
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We sometimes forget that, but the kingdom is one of the countries with the highest mortality in the world per 100,000 inhabitants due to the new coronavirus: nearly 70 dead!
… less meaningful than in “deaths per 100,000 inhabitants”
In contrast, the United States, which retains the highest number of deaths for a single country, reports “only” 20 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
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These data evolve on the one hand according to the topology of the country: the more it is vast and sparsely populated, the less the virus is likely to circulate there.
Health systems and protective measures (containment, tests, etc.) also play a role, as well as the speed of their implementation. The UK, which has been slow to contain its population, has quickly shown higher mortality than that of its neighbors … while it has long been lower.
Everyone has their accounts!
But these are not the only explanations: not all countries have the same way of counting their deaths from covid-19. Thus, Belgium identifies any “suspicious” death in hospital or in retirement homes is attributed to the new coronavirus.
In other countries, such as France or the United Kingdom, we have long “failed” to count deaths “outside the hospital”: Paris did so from April 1, London … from April 23.
The same questions were asked in Spain or Italy, and there are still deaths at home, which no one is really able to assess, except to systematically test anyone after a death.
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