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Pandemic Observations -- January 11, Top 40+ Nations (China Deaths Reach 20,000 per Day?): [1]

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Date: 2023-01-12

The Road Ahead?

While most of the world (outside East Asia and Scandinavia at least) appears to be surviving the current wave of Covid infections much better than last winter’s Omicron tsunami, with a weekly death toll running less than 1/3 of where we were a year ago — such is definitely not the case in China, where their daily death toll now almost certainly exceeds the current weekly death toll in the rest of the world combined.

Grid News has a detailed look at just how badly things appear to be going in the PRC since they abruptly abandoned their Zero-Covid policy in early December:

A medical professor at a hospital in Chengdu, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, told Grid, “It was a sudden reopening. There was a lack of preparation in many aspects.” Because it was focused on containment for three years, she said, “the medical system neglected research and treatment of the disease. After the reopening, there was no standard treatment plan in place.” Jennifer Bouey, an epidemiologist and leader of China policy studies at the Rand Corporation, echoed the frustration over the government’s lack of foresight. “I think the most disturbing fact is that the Chinese government didn’t do good preparation or any preparation at all before they changed the policy,” she told Grid. Officials didn’t lead a big vaccine push ahead of the change in rules, she added, and the government didn’t sufficiently stockpile antivirals and other medicines. … Chilling reports have also emerged from China’s crematoriums, where employees are working overtime, operating incinerators 24-7 with lines of hearses waiting outside. Using satellite imagery, the Washington Post showed an increase in vehicles at several funeral homes around the country. One funeral home outside of Beijing even built a new parking lot, seemingly to handle the overflow. “The big cities have passed the viral wave,” Huang said, “but my understanding is that the rapid increase of the severe cases and deaths — that is still not over.” Huang and other experts are particularly concerned about a potential spread of cases to China’s rural areas during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, when hundreds of millions of people travel to visit their hometowns. China’s rural healthcare clinics are not equipped to handle the surge.

Top 40+ Nations: January 5-11 New Deaths 7-Day D/1M 7-Day Deaths Weekly Change 14.day Change Change fr Max World Hong Kong Macao Sweden Finland Japan Croatia Denmark Martinique UK Germany Taiwan Italy Latvia Australia France New.Zealand USA Guadeloupe Estonia Czechia Canada Austria So Korea Chile Lithuania Belgium Spain Reunion Slovenia Trinidad Israel Slovakia Ireland Uruguay Peru Hungary Paraguay Costa Rica Barbados Serbia Brazil Romania Russia Argentina Guatemala Poland Colombia Malaysia Ukraine Mexico Thailand Philippines Iran Indonesia 2.2 62.3 52.3 49.5 29.1 20.8 20.2 19.0 16.0 15.1 13.9 13.3 12.8 12.2 11.7 10.6 10.6 10.4 10.0 9.8 8.6 8.4 8.2 7.6 7.5 7.4 7.3 6.8 6.7 6.3 5.7 5.3 5.3 4.9 4.6 4.6 4.5 3.9 3.7 3.5 3.3 3.2 2.7 2.2 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.2 17,373 467 34 500 161 2,630 83 110 6 1,028 1,169 316 775 23 298 693 53 3,426 4 13 92 316 74 390 143 20 85 318 6 13 8 46 29 24 16 151 43 28 19 1 29 685 52 316 78 28 60 80 42 46 127 58 64 24 48 40% 2% -13% 59% -5% 36% -7% 7% 100% -3% 4% 64% 10% 15% 110% -12% -4% 20% 100% -28% 163% 5% 37% -3% -14% 43% 4% 62% 600% -28% 33% 18% 71% 9% 100% -4% 8% 27% 46% 100% -33% -18% 53% -10% 66% 250% -19% -22% 200% -2% -6% -23% -53% 26% -42% 10% 64% 387% 76% 4% 16% 34% 68% 900% 72% 49% 32% -2% 34% -2% -7% -24% 13% 600% -23% 8% 4% -3% 2% -4% 26% 76% 8% 200% -14% 17% -4% 15% -45% 71% -30% -28% 150% 52% 100% 33% -30% 34% -14% 51% 29% 56% 38% -8% 33% -23% -34% -45% 126% -50% -84% -76% -13% -25% -38% 0% -84% -66% -96% -88% -81% -73% -86% -92% -52% -90% -77% -86% -97% -84% -94% -74% -92% -84% -99% -94% -96% -95% -84% -96% -95% -89% -96% -94% -96% -98% -98% -97% -92% -97% -94% -97% -98% -96% -98% -94% -99% -98% -99% -99% -99% -97% -97% -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 42 46 50 54 55 56 57 59 62 63 65 67 73 76

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 5-11 New Cases 7-Day C/1M 7-Day Cases Weekly Change 14.Day Change Change fr Max World Brunei Hong Kong Japan Martinique Taiwan So Korea New.Zealand Australia Cyprus Slovenia Guadeloupe Italy Austria Uruguay Chile Barbados Germany USA Costa Rica Finland Argentina France Paraguay Singapore Bolivia Reunion Serbia Israel Lithuania Brazil Macao Montenegro Ireland Switzerland Belgium Belize Guatemala UK Iceland Malta Canada Sweden Netherlands Peru Romania Mexico Spain Russia Malaysia Colombia Ukraine China Philippines 423 13,307 13,119 10,093 7,788 7,346 6,919 4,330 2,986 2,978 2,622 2,443 2,248 1,995 1,626 1,401 1,355 1,266 1,044 973 931 909 896 843 832 800 787 778 752 737 725 723 678 637 628 624 560 518 517 472 471 458 444 427 245 214 207 197 159 100 95 78 36 31 3,297,146 5,827 98,406 1,274,801 2,922 174,982 354,924 21,660 76,200 3,598 5,454 977 135,977 17,955 5,649 26,752 390 106,122 345,506 4,960 5,156 40,982 58,490 6,016 4,872 9,319 705 6,790 6,514 2,003 154,057 470 426 3,147 5,435 7,234 223 8,606 35,131 161 208 17,275 4,484 7,295 8,085 4,107 26,586 9,220 23,130 3,220 4,856 3,411 50,785 3,389 2% 326% -38% 58% 1861% -4% -19% -5% 46% 38% -22% -13% 11% -27% -31% -3% 100% -35% -38% -4% -3% -44% -53% -10% -19% -25% 1% 13% -5% -29% 1% -59% 72% 4% -13% 7% -2% 25% -12% -4% -5% 10% -47% 116% -36% 14% -10% -35% -30% -3% -28% 6% 27% 23% -16% 167% 1% -8% 1021% 43% -15% -41% -39% -3% -43% 735% -17% -32% -1% 3% 56% -34% 10% 10% 7% -9% -68% 129% -24% -28% -44% 13% -24% -3% -40% 208% 58% 22% -42% 2% -21% -30% -8% -8% 55% -4% -44% -15% -72% 13% -5% -37% -42% -41% -22% 52% 113% -44% -86% -80% -72% -25% -75% -69% -87% -85% -89% -90% -95% -95% -89% -94% -93% -89% -91% -93% -94% -93% -93% -95% -98% -85% -96% -88% -98% -94% -99% -97% -88% -59% -97% -98% -98% -98% -96% -76% -97% -99% -97% -94% -98% -99% -98% -98% -91% -99% -98% -99% -98% -99% 0% -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 41 42 44 53 57 58 59 62 66 67 70 81 83

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 5-11 7-Day Deaths 14-Day Increase Global% World USA Japan Germany UK Italy France Brazil Sweden Hong Kong So Korea Spain Taiwan Canada Russia Australia Finland Peru Chile Mexico Denmark Czechia Belgium Croatia Colombia Argentina Austria Philippines Poland Thailand New.Zealand Romania Indonesia Israel Ukraine Hungary Malaysia Macao Slovakia Serbia Paraguay Guatemala 17,373 3,426 2,630 1,169 1,028 775 693 685 500 467 390 318 316 316 316 298 161 151 143 127 110 92 85 83 80 78 74 64 60 58 53 52 48 46 46 43 42 34 29 29 28 28 0.4% 0.6% 8.1% 1.4% 1.1% 0.8% 0.9% 0.2% 3.7% 8.0% 2.5% 0.4% 3.4% 1.3% 0.2% 2.6% 4.1% 0.1% 0.5% 0.1% 2.7% 0.3% 0.5% 1.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.6% 0.3% 0.1% 0.4% 3.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.7% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 332% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 100% 19.7% 15.1% 6.7% 5.9% 4.5% 4.0% 3.9% 2.9% 2.7% 2.2% 1.8% 1.8% 1.8% 1.8% 1.7% 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 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% 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 40

14-Day Increase = Net increase of current 14-day numbers over prior cumulative totals

Global% = Share of Global Totals

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