O/T:- Are we over-reacting to COVD19?

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Thats what we really need to try and understand why. Is it the reporting of the deaths or the way each country has reacted to the virus etc?

I think it will be a combination of both and also we have to consider who in the population is being tested for the disease as well across each country.

For example in Country A you could have people that are being tested across a wide range of ages with suspected illness who may only have mild symptoms. Or this testing may include say routine testing of health and key workers. In this example the deaths to cases ratio could be low in comparison to other countries.

Country B for example may only be able to test people who are suspected of having the disease and may have ended up in hospital as a result or may already be in hospital for other underlying conditions. By nature of the illness being severe enough in some people to warrant hospitalisation then sadly some of those people would probably go on to succumb to the disease and die. In this example you could end up with a higher ratio of death to cases.

I think at the moment many countries probably will be somewhere between the two examples. In time as more testing is carried out to find out who has or who has not had the disease then maybe there would be a more levelling up of ratios around the world maybe?

Ultimately in time if there is mass testing in countries then when a vaccine does become available those that haven’t had the disease and don’t have the antibodies could be more easily identified and vaccinated accordingly. The big question is how long all this will take. That nobody really knows.