[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[Olympian1010 7,483]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah those photos of leaders standing directly next to each other, ignoring what's widely been called the number one safety measure, have baffled me since the beginning (from multiple countries)  

 

Population itself says something, but population density says even more. I'm guessing Bratislava is Slovakia's most densely populated city (do correct me if I'm wrong), and it's barely even at 30% of the density of the 133rd most densely populated US city. If you're not densely populated, you're going to do a hell of a lot better.

 

To take it to an extreme: even if they might have given everyone in the former Kowloon Walled City a mask, no way it would not have spread like madness there simply because distance  

It’s also worth noting that our building style is much different than Asia and Europe. Unless your in the downtown (city center) part of a major city in the U.S., people’s properties a more spread out, and have less inhabitants. 

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Latest data as of 14^th May, 2020.

Top best recovery rate (These countries have recorded more than 70% recovery rate)

Data counted only for countries with more than 1000 cases.

No	Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Percentage recovered from total cases
1.	Iceland	1,802	+0	10	+0	1,780	12	98.78 %
2.	Hong Kong	1,052	+1	4	+0	1,009	39	95.91 %
3.	Thailand	3,018	+1	56	+0	2,850	112	94.43 %
4.	China	82,929	+3	4,633	+0	78,195	101	94.29 %
5.	New Zealand	1,497	+0	21	+0	1,411	65	94.26 %
6.	Luxembourg	3,904	+10	103	+1	3,629	172	92.96 %
7.	Australia	6,989	+9	98	+0	6,301	611	90.16 %
8.	Austria	16,058	+61	626	+2	14,405	1,027	89.70 %
9.	Switzerland	30,463	+50	1,870	+0	27,100	1,493	88.96 %
10.	South Korea	10,991	+29	260	+1	9,762	969	88.82 %
11.	Germany	174,098	+552	7,861	+81	150,300	15,937	86.33 %
12.	Croatia	2,221	+8	94	+0	1,850	277	83.30 %
13.	Ireland	23,401	+159	1,497	+9	19,470	2,434	83.20 %
14.	Denmark	10,713	+46	537	+4	8,805	1,371	82.19 %
15.	Uzbekistan	2,636	+24	11	+0	2,136	489	81.03 %
16.	Iran	114,533	+1,808	6,854	+71	90,539	17,140	79.05 %
17.	Malaysia	6,819	+40	112	+1	5,351	1,356	78.47 %
18.	Slovakia	1,477	+8	27	+0	1,112	338	75.29 %

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21 hours ago, dcro said:

 

How on earth can they even attempt to compare a place like the United States (330 million) to a country like Slovakia (5 million)?

 

If anything, living in small places with limited international travel has proven highly advantageous in battling the coronavirus crisis. And even there, living in small towns/villages is even more beneficial than living in cities.

 

Also, is there no 1.5 m rule in Slovakia?

 

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Sure. but again if you look at the matter in terms of the size of the country. The USA is much larger, while Slovakia has a length of some cca 500 kilometers and you can cross the whole country basically in about 7 hours by car from west to east and 3-4 hours from north to south, smaller area means also that it is quite easier to get infected than in extremely larger area like the US.

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Yesterdays recap:

 

4876 Tests provided yesterday unveiled 8 new confirmed cases (6 of them from the last quarantined Roma slum that will have to remain closed for another two weeks and 2 cases across the country), no new death and 52 newly recovered patients which means we surpassed the 1100 healed patients.

 

Currently 338 Active cases registered in the country, 134 hospitalized patients, 4 in intensive care beds and 1 still under artificial lung ventilator

 

 

So right now in Slovakia

1477 Confirmed Cases   (+8 Yesterday), 

4876 Tests Yesterday    (131910 in Total)

27 Deaths  (+0 Yesterday), 1112 Fully Recovered  (+52 Yesterday)

 

https://covid-19.nczisk.sk/en

[dcro 10,182]

2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Sure. but again if you look at the matter in terms of the size of the country. The USA is much larger, while Slovakia has a length of some cca 500 kilometers and you can cross the whole country basically in about 7 hours by car from west to east and 3-4 hours from north to south, smaller area means also that it is quite easier to get infected than in extremely larger area like the US.

 

But then again, having a much smaller area and population means it's much easier to control the source of the spread (including the all-important patient(s) zero). Plus, all these big countries do have regions that are extremely densely populated (like the whole BosWash area).

 

Countries that fought the virus best in Europe are places like Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. They all have small population + small area + small international travel (especially during February/March).

 

Similar places in Western Europe (Ireland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Belgium) have a much larger circulation of international travellers, so they didn't do so well...

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Anyway, there's no doubt that Slovakia did a great job in containing the spread, statistically speaking. I just find it silly how the article tries to compare Slovakia with the United States. It's apples and oranges. At best you can compare Slovakia to certain states, but even that's iffy since the states are still a part of the same country.

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Just now, dcro said:

Anyway, there's no doubt that Slovakia did a great job in containing the spread, statistically speaking. I just find it silly how the article tries to compare Slovakia with the United States. It's apples and oranges. At best you can compare Slovakia to certain states, but even that's iffy since the states are a part of the same country.

 

Yeah, you really can't compare countries like Slovakia and Latvia with the USA or something. That being said, I am definitely happy those countries that have good conditions to get it under control actually managed to use those conditions to actually keep it sort of under control. I'm sure leaders reacting like Trump or Bolsonaro would have managed to screw up even those countries  

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

Anyway, there's no doubt that Slovakia did a great job in containing the spread, statistically speaking. I just find it silly that the article tries to compare Slovakia with the United States. Apples and oranges. At best you can compare Slovakia to certain states, but even that's iffy since the states are a part of the same country.

I agree it’s unfair to compare Slovakia and United States, but it’s not completely unfair to compare policies and government reaction/strategies. That’s a place where there’s a lot of difference between nations, and it may be helpful to study which responses and measures have worked the best globally.

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22 godziny temu, dcro napisał:

 

How on earth can they even attempt to compare a place like the United States (330 million) to a country like Slovakia (5 million)?

 

If anything, living in small places with limited international travel has proven highly advantageous in battling the coronavirus crisis. And even there, living in small towns/villages is even more beneficial than living in cities.

 

Also, is there no 1.5 m rule in Slovakia?

 

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And as far as I remember almost everyone here laughed how quickly and seriously Slovakia reacted for this pandemic, someone people thought that restrictions introduced by them were too overreacted. Now we can see that they did great job and they reached success  

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6 minutes ago, rybak said:

And as far as I remember almost everyone here laughed how quickly and seriously Slovakia reacted for this pandemic, someone people thought that restrictions introduced by them were too overreacted. Now we can see that they did great job and they reached success  

 

Yes, just like Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Countries of similar predisposition.

 

And then there are places like Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan, whose numbers are even better than those of Slovakia. But that's because they were smart enough to ignore WHO and immediately impose travel ban to China, rightfully assuming the situation was worse than reported...