Thought of the Day - December 13 - By the Numbers

As you are probably well aware, the world now has over 70M official cases and 1.6M deaths.

With improvements happening in Western Europe, due to extensive lockdowns, North America is becoming the epicentre.

Cases:

Deaths:

In Canada, daily new cases counts continue to climb.

Alberta, in part due to higher testing rates, is recording the most new cases per capita - double the national average.

Looking at hospitalizations, the number of people in hospital across the county has now exceeded the peak first wave - a true measure that this wave is now bigger.

But it is starting to flatten out in BC.

This also means death counts will continue to rise.

This week Manitoba has recorded four times the national average in deaths per capita. BC also had its single worst day with 28 deaths in a 24 hour period.

This week's shout-out goes to South America.

Cases per capita:

Deaths per capita:

As you can see at present South America does not seem to following the same second-wave trend as Europe and North America. I am sure there are many factors - one might be a more innovative approach to treatment ( Thought of the Day - December 9 - Great News ). Only time will tell.

Cheers

Cliff