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Now these are the figures at this moment 10 April 2020. They could change, but they seem to speak for themselves.

The US population is about 334,000,000 and the Australian population is about 26,000,000 (as you can imagine population figures are a bit slippery). So the population of the US is about 13 times greater than that of Australia.

The figures come from wikipedia today. That sources seems to be being updated regularly, and currently is compatible with other sources… but will be changed, so don’t expect the same figures if you look.

First case of coronavirus in the US announced 20th Jan.
First case in Australia 25th Jan. So pretty comparable.

Current confirmed cases in US: 469,021
Current confirmed cases in Aus: 6,109
The US has 77 times as many confirmed cases as Aus.

Current deaths in the US 16,675
Current deaths in Aus 54

The US has 309 times as many deaths as Australia….

It is highly probably that the US figures are under reported because people can’t afford to get into hospital or see doctors. The ‘at home’ death rate in New York has supposedly risen quite sharply [1], [2].

So to recapitulate, the US has:

• 13 times the population of Australia
• 77 times as many cases of coronavirus as Australia, and
• 309 times as many deaths

Who says all forms of neoliberalism are the same?

Its a complex situation, but does seem like the US is heading for a much worse situation than Australia. Although some reports suggest that Australians love of Easter Holidays will radically stuff up the situation here.

Addenda

Today, 12th April:

he US has suffered more confirmed coronavirus deaths than any other country, and on Saturday was poised to soon reach 20,000 Covid-19 fatalities, new data indicated…

By Saturday evening, Johns Hopkins University’s tally of US Covid-19 fatalities was at 19,877. Italy followed with 19,468. The US was also the first country to report 2,000 deaths in a single day, with 2,108 people dying in the previous 24 hours.

The Guardian 12th April Coronavirus: US overtakes Italy as country with most deaths

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