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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, feel free to move to Italy.

Once there you can research what per capita means and why it matters.[/quote]

This has been answered a few times in this thread. The Y axis is logarithm of the total cases or deaths. The population being a constant doesn't change the trajectory. The author of the chart explained it well.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1242904596856614912[/twitter][/quote]

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The per capita poster here is so dumb.  She thinks she’s smart by using that statistic but doesn’t realize that number is meaningless until the entire pandemic is over and we see the final results.  Everyone starts with 1 case.  One case in a population. Of 1 million looks 1000 times worse per capita than one case in a population of one billion.  Then when the numbers increase to 2 each it still looks worse.  The virus has the same growth rate (known as R0) regardless of total population.  Per capita numbers are useless at the start of an outbreak - and we are still at the start.  If you compare this to a road trip to the beach, we are still pulling out of the driveway.  It isn’t until the pandemic is over that comparing per capita numbers will be useful in terms of which counties did better than others.[/quote]

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