We can compare these numbers in (hopefully) 8-10 months, after we have better information about the first incidence in various places, and especially the rate o

We can compare these numbers in (hopefully) 8-10 months, after we have better information about the first incidence in various places, and especially the rate of testing. Right now, even your attempted normalization for population is meaningless because effectively the only thing that we know about the state of play in different places is that it's different. We don't know in what ways (let alone why).