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Flattening the coronavirus curve: How Canada compares with other countries
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Why have some countries been devastated by the novel coronavirus while others are more or less unscathed? Some of the answer lies in good or bad luck in geography or timing, while another part lies in good or bad decisions by policy-makers, an expert says.
The graphs below show how Canada compares to several other countries, measured from the point where each country had 100 known cases.
Testing practices vary enormously between countries and within countries, so the important thing to keep an eye on is the direction that the right-hand part of any given line is taking: up, down or level. “Really what matters is the tangent — the slope at the end of the curve is what matters the most,” says Steven Hoffman of York University. “What really
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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