(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Pandemic Observations -- January 25, Top 40+ Nations (The Chinese Conundrum): [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-27 The Road Ahead? The global Covid stats are looking increasingly favorable, with the weekly death toll apparently plateauing and the weekly caseload of new infections continuing a strong trend toward lower numbers. Indeed, the weekly caseload is now lower than at any point in the pandemic since August 2020! Unfortunately, these numbers don’t reflect what is currently happening in China, where the true situation remains as murky as ever. The Chinese CDC is now claiming that the virus has already infected 80% of China’s 1.4 billion population, and that daily deaths in hospitals actually peaked at 4,273 back on January 4, and now number less than 1,000 per day — a far cry from the 36,000 deaths per day peak forecast by the UK health data firm Airfinity. The statistical problem with these dubious Chinese claims is that if total deaths number less than 100,000 out of more than 1 billion infections, then their case fatality rate (CFR) would be down around 0.01%, which is substantially less than the seasonal flu, and at least an order of magnitude lower than any other country has reported thus far (aside from North Korea of course). Top 40+ Nations: January 19-25 New Deaths 7-Day D/1M 7-Day Deaths Weekly Change 14.Day Change Change fr Max World Hong Kong Sweden Japan Norway UK New.Zealand Australia Finland Germany Croatia Greece Denmark USA Taiwan Spain Cyprus Italy Trinidad Chile Canada Barbados Macao Portugal Estonia Austria France Slovakia Guadeloupe Slovenia Serbia Brazil Paraguay Georgia Latvia So Korea Belgium Costa Rica Peru Montenegro Hungary Israel Mexico Czechia Russia Romania Ukraine Guatemala Argentina Colombia Poland Philippines Thailand Indonesia 2.0 35.3 25.5 20.0 17.7 15.8 15.6 14.9 14.8 13.1 12.9 12.7 11.9 11.8 10.0 9.1 8.3 8.2 7.1 7.1 7.0 6.9 6.2 6.1 6.0 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.0 4.8 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1 3.7 3.2 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.5 2.0 2.0 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.0 0.9 0.6 0.1 15,694 265 258 2,528 96 1,072 78 380 82 1,097 53 132 69 3,903 239 424 10 495 10 135 264 2 4 62 8 51 364 30 2 10 41 977 32 17 8 213 47 19 106 2 29 25 350 27 292 38 58 21 56 60 36 93 44 39 3% -36% -32% -15% -4% -5% 42% 14% -35% 14% -13% 10% -13% 9% -13% 23% 25% -14% -17% -21% -13% 200% -79% 3% -27% 4% -19% 3% 0% 11% -23% 81% 7% 70% -47% -32% -43% 0% -15% 100% -43% -14% 29% -25% -7% -14% -5% -30% -37% -9% -29% -27% -32% -24% 4% -26% -22% 21% 3% 5% 23% 62% -37% -10% -34% 5% -31% 20% 1% 50% 157% -28% 57% -1% -8% 100% -68% -19% -39% -22% -45% 28% -33% -39% 31% 0% 24% 1250% -47% -34% -22% 19% -25% 50% -4% -36% 137% -50% -9% -5% 28% 42% 16% -31% -35% 11% -18% -31% -86% -87% -62% -15% -51% -88% -66% -39% -68% -82% -90% -82% -79% -84% -80% -93% -73% -91% -94% -99% -79% -95% -90% -97% -90% -94% -95% -96% -98% -97% -91% -95% -97% -97% -97% -91% -98% -92% -98% -97% -98% -94% -97% -98% -97% -99% -99% -95% -99% -99% -99% -95% -98% -100% Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 42 43 44 48 49 53 56 57 58 62 64 66 79 D/1M = New Covid-19 deaths per 1 million population over prior 7 days C/1M = New Covid-19 cases per 1 million population over prior 7 days Weekly Change = Net change from previous week's stats 14-Day Change = Net Change from previous 14-Day period Change fr Max = Net change from week of peak deaths or new cases Bold = Nations experiencing significant upward movement in cases and/or deaths Note: Only nations with >250,000 population included All data derived from worldometer Top 40+ Nations: January 19-25 New Cases 7-Day C/1M 7-Day Cases Weekly Change 14.Day Change Change fr Max World Taiwan Japan Brunei So Korea New.Zealand Hong Kong Greece Cyprus Austria Finland Reunion Costa Rica Australia USA Italy Slovenia Georgia Chile Germany Paraguay Lithuania Martinique Uruguay Serbia Guadeloupe Montenegro Israel France Barbados Brazil Canada Bolivia Sweden Guatemala Trinidad Russia Singapore Lebanon Mexico Spain Belgium UK Ecuador Argentina Portugal Czechia Romania Peru Poland Ukraine Colombia 234 4,992 4,182 2,786 2,776 2,770 2,746 2,680 2,208 1,681 1,602 1,110 1,054 1,052 949 858 837 793 787 778 746 617 610 580 563 535 521 517 473 441 394 383 310 296 288 272 271 258 256 255 244 240 233 212 191 185 183 155 89 65 62 47 1,822,711 118,914 528,136 1,220 142,414 13,855 20,601 27,897 2,667 15,133 8,873 995 5,371 26,850 314,283 51,888 1,740 3,165 15,027 65,192 5,323 1,679 229 2,017 4,917 214 327 4,473 30,905 127 83,784 14,447 3,615 2,985 4,774 381 39,598 1,510 1,744 32,838 11,426 2,780 15,847 3,739 8,614 1,889 1,963 2,968 2,945 2,451 2,710 2,391 -23% -17% -40% -10% -42% -28% -53% 3% -20% 13% 715% -18% 3% -26% -20% -38% -35% 288% -21% -4% 176% 3% -81% -46% -19% 0% -27% -9% -20% 2% -27% -12% -46% 13% -11% -27% 18% -49% 24% 6% -36% -29% -52% 7% -56% 26% 13% -15% -45% 21% -9% -2% -36% -27% -33% -64% -51% -26% -75% 2% -3% -33% -5% 57% 4% -51% -22% -47% -64% 188% -37% -50% -43% -32% -54% -58% -14% -80% 16% -30% -62% -57% -35% -6% -53% -57% -35% 38% 31% -59% 52% 14% 25% -52% -35% -15% -75% -38% -36% -16% -60% -20% -14% -59% -92% -79% -69% -96% -95% -90% -94% -89% -92% -95% -88% -98% -92% -96% -94% -96% -98% -98% -94% -96% -87% -98% -98% -97% -96% -99% -98% -99% -99% -97% -93% -95% -95% -99% -87% -93% -97% -99% -97% -89% -99% -99% -99% -94% -99% -99% -99% -99% -99% -99% -99% -99% Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 42 43 45 48 49 50 54 66 72 75 80 Following are the Power Rankings for the most important nations currently driving the global pandemic ranked in terms of total new infections and new deaths during the past week: Top 40 Nations by New Deaths: January 19-25 7-Day Deaths 14-Day Increase Global% World USA Japan Germany UK Brazil Italy Spain Australia France Mexico Russia Hong Kong Canada Sweden Taiwan So Korea Chile Greece Peru Norway Philippines Finland New.Zealand Denmark Portugal Colombia Ukraine Argentina Croatia Austria Belgium Thailand Serbia Indonesia Romania Poland Paraguay Slovakia Hungary Czechia 15,694 3,903 2,528 1,097 1,072 977 495 424 380 364 350 292 265 264 258 239 213 135 132 106 96 93 82 78 69 62 60 58 56 53 51 47 44 41 39 38 36 32 30 29 27 0.5% 0.7% 9.1% 1.3% 1.1% 0.2% 0.6% 0.7% 4.1% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 5.4% 1.1% 2.8% 3.3% 1.6% 0.5% 0.7% 0.1% 4.0% 0.3% 2.5% 3.7% 1.9% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.6% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 100% 24.9% 16.1% 7.0% 6.8% 6.2% 3.2% 2.7% 2.4% 2.3% 2.2% 1.9% 1.7% 1.7% 1.6% 1.5% 1.4% 0.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 14-Day Increase = Net increase of current 14-day numbers over prior cumulative totals Global% = Share of Global Totals [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/27/2149659/-Pandemic-Observations-January-25-Top-40-Nations-The-Chinese-Conundrum Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. 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