(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Pandemic Observations -- February 22, Top 40+ Nations (Fading Away to Endemic Status?): [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: 2023-02-23 The Road Ahead? It now looks like the more than three-year-long Covid-19 pandemic is finally fading away to merely endemic status. The global weekly death toll (outside China at least) has now fallen to its lowest level since its initial rapid rise in March of 2020. Very few places are currently showing more than transient rises in either new cases or deaths, though it is noteworthy that the US remains among the slowest to return to anything approaching “normalcy” — and now accounts for about 1 out of every 3 non-Chinese Covid deaths (indeed, more than the next 5 countries combined over the past two weeks). And speaking of China, the latest update from Airfinity projects that daily deaths there have declined to about 10,000 now (which is still more than the rest of the world’s entire weekly death toll, though down from a peak of ~36,000 in late January), with a cumulative death toll approaching 1.6 million. If present trends continue, we could see the effective “end” of this pandemic by April — though like the seasonal flu it will probably remain endemic to some degree for the foreseeable future. Top 40+ Nations: February 9-22 New Deaths 2-Week D/1M 2-Week Deaths 2-Week Change Change fr Max World Taiwan Greece Ireland UK USA Australia Japan Germany Finland New.Zealand Canada Estonia Spain Chile Sweden Italy Croatia Austria Trinidad Lithuania Denmark Belgium Barbados Serbia Costa Rica Slovakia Portugal Latvia Georgia Czechia N.Macedonia Bosnia Jamaica Hong Kong France Cyprus Moldova Peru So Korea Hungary Brazil Israel Mexico Russia Romania Poland Philippines Ukraine Colombia Iran Indonesia 2.3 32.7 23.4 23.1 19.9 17.6 17.1 13.8 12.9 12.8 11.6 11.5 11.3 10.1 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.5 9.3 9.3 8.8 8.6 7.0 6.9 6.9 6.5 6.4 6.4 6.4 6.0 6.0 5.8 5.5 5.4 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.2 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.1 3.1 2.9 1.9 1.3 1.3 0.8 0.6 0.1 17,569 778 244 114 1,348 5,831 437 1,738 1,078 71 58 432 15 474 190 99 578 39 84 13 24 50 81 2 60 33 35 65 12 24 64 12 18 16 38 329 6 17 137 207 38 798 32 402 454 56 73 147 55 39 49 39 -28% 7% -43% 63% -19% -16% -41% -55% 4% -61% 12% -13% 0% -10% -16% -66% -26% -43% -31% 86% 4% -38% 42% 0% 5% -15% -36% 0% 0% 60% 49% 300% 80% 300% -79% -33% -45% 143% -75% -50% -22% -15% -48% -24% -27% -27% 12% -16% -61% -80% 58% -35% -92% -67% -84% -86% -92% -88% -65% -71% -91% -86% -87% -83% -91% -96% -99% -93% -95% -96% -95% -96% -96% -92% -98% -97% -93% -93% -98% -98% -98% -98% -98% -98% -98% -93% -99% -98% -92% -99% -99% -96% -99% -98% -96% -98% -97% -99% -99% -96% -99% -100% -99% -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 41 42 44 45 47 54 60 61 65 68 80 D/1M = New Covid-19 deaths per 1 million population over prior 14 days C/1M = New Covid-19 cases per 1 million population over prior 14 days 2-Week Change = Net Change from previous 14-day period Change fr Max = Net change from week of peak deaths or new cases Bold = States/Provs 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: February 9-22 New Cases 2-Week C/1M 2-Week Cases 2-Week Change Change fr Max World Taiwan Austria Greece New.Zealand So Korea Brunei Cyprus Germany Japan Bahrain Montenegro Costa Rica Georgia Slovenia USA Lithuania Australia Serbia Russia Chile Belgium Moldova Czechia Italy France Barbados UK Israel Canada Poland Estonia Brazil Netherlands Malta Trinidad Romania Guadeloupe Ireland Mexico Spain Hong Kong Ecuador Guatemala Ukraine Malaysia Argentina So Africa Iran Indonesia 283 9,107 7,357 4,032 3,311 2,863 2,665 2,377 2,258 2,030 1,851 1,748 1,703 1,689 1,527 1,426 1,385 1,363 1,232 1,157 1,151 1,109 1,033 982 979 742 733 705 695 552 522 490 421 392 389 384 382 370 345 343 330 322 259 259 103 94 66 65 26 10 2,203,823 216,927 66,216 41,974 16,560 146,878 1,167 2,871 189,198 256,391 3,144 1,098 8,678 6,737 3,177 472,043 3,767 34,794 10,752 168,809 21,988 12,870 4,172 10,504 59,248 48,440 211 47,863 6,015 20,801 19,748 650 89,438 6,696 172 537 7,326 148 1,706 44,164 15,425 2,414 4,571 4,293 4,495 3,044 2,979 3,874 2,168 2,639 -24% -41% 33% -64% -15% -46% -27% -16% 15% -59% 48% 91% 8% 44% 10% -22% -10% -10% 8% 35% -5% 99% 177% 70% -18% -10% -24% 39% -9% -4% 91% -6% -30% 50% -19% -13% 42% -52% 68% 4% -14% -85% 495% -23% -57% -9% -61% 61% 42% -25% -95% -81% -89% -92% -94% -97% -98% -96% -94% -92% -97% -97% -94% -98% -98% -96% -97% -97% -95% -94% -96% -98% -92% -98% -98% -99% -98% -98% -99% -96% -97% -99% -96% -99% -99% -95% -98% -100% -99% -93% -99% -100% -96% -94% -99% -99% -100% -99% -100% -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 41 43 44 66 68 74 75 90 99 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 two weeks: Top 40 Nations by New Deaths: February 9-22 2-Week Deaths 2-Week Increase %Global World USA Japan UK Germany Brazil Taiwan Italy Spain Russia Australia Canada Mexico France Greece So Korea Chile Philippines Peru Ireland Sweden Austria Belgium Poland Finland Portugal Czechia Serbia New.Zealand Romania Ukraine Denmark Iran Croatia Colombia Indonesia Hong Kong Hungary Slovakia Costa Rica Israel 17,569 5,831 1,738 1,348 1,078 798 778 578 474 454 437 432 402 329 244 207 190 147 137 114 99 84 81 73 71 65 64 60 58 56 55 50 49 39 39 39 38 38 35 33 32 0.3% 0.5% 2.5% 0.7% 0.6% 0.1% 4.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.1% 2.3% 0.9% 0.1% 0.2% 0.7% 0.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 1.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 1.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 100% 33.2% 9.9% 7.7% 6.1% 4.5% 4.4% 3.3% 2.7% 2.6% 2.5% 2.5% 2.3% 1.9% 1.4% 1.2% 1.1% 0.8% 0.8% 0.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 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 2-Week Increase = Net increase of current 14-day numbers over 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