Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Mnementh]

jason1637 said:

Mnementh said:

Which countries do well? Maybe we can take notes to learn.

Germany is currently in the process of reopening (the different provinces have different times for school breaks, so not the whole country is reopening schools at the same time) and currently the new infections are strongly on the rise.

I was inder the impression that Japan, Germany, and Sweden handled it well.

The school opening? Or overall?

Japan handled the pandemic so far well overall, they only have 8 deaths per 1 million inhabitants. But they are well into a second wave which is worse than the first. Dunno if that second wave was produced by school reponenings though:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/

Germany has handled the pandemic overall mediocre, with currently 111 deaths per 1 million inhabitants (compare that to japan). Germany currently reopens schools and slowly the infection rate is increasing. So no real second wave so far, but the cases are dangerously on the rise.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

Sweden had overall a bad handle on things with 572 deaths per million population. They have no second wave yet, although you might argue their new infections also slowly increased over the last two weeks.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/