...sort the nations on "deaths/million" for the way I measured the final "contest" I called "The COVID Cup" - who beat whom at not-dying.
Canada, at 1500ish, was about the same as Denmark and Norway, far lower than the rest of Europe, including Germany (2000).
Australia was down around 700, in league with actual islands like Taiwan and South Korea (it's an island, considering the north border).
So I think that "being an island" was better than "data systems". The USA and UK had pretty good tech and data, but were just the worst, at over 3600.
Your pandemic superstars were communists, like Vietnam and Cuba; public health doctors came by to test, and any positives got the whole family a visit to an unused hotel. (Soldiers backing up the order.) Cuba was untouched until Delta blew through every protection in summer 2021 - by which time Cuba's THREE home-brewed vaccines were being frantically dispensed at jaw-dropping speed. The did the population in about 6-8 weeks, and the pandemic "wave" just fell off a cliff. I felt like applauding. My blog did:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
...sort the nations on "deaths/million" for the way I measured the final "contest" I called "The COVID Cup" - who beat whom at not-dying.
Canada, at 1500ish, was about the same as Denmark and Norway, far lower than the rest of Europe, including Germany (2000).
Australia was down around 700, in league with actual islands like Taiwan and South Korea (it's an island, considering the north border).
So I think that "being an island" was better than "data systems". The USA and UK had pretty good tech and data, but were just the worst, at over 3600.
Your pandemic superstars were communists, like Vietnam and Cuba; public health doctors came by to test, and any positives got the whole family a visit to an unused hotel. (Soldiers backing up the order.) Cuba was untouched until Delta blew through every protection in summer 2021 - by which time Cuba's THREE home-brewed vaccines were being frantically dispensed at jaw-dropping speed. The did the population in about 6-8 weeks, and the pandemic "wave" just fell off a cliff. I felt like applauding. My blog did:
http://brander.ca/c19#venceremos
...when Omicron came, it was already beaten.
Well-done!