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Trivial counter-example: Iceland. Very few countries can give you an accurate death rate at this point. If you look at mortality among demographics that were

• yters 6y ago
  That's the other interesting point about graphing by latitude: the very cold countries such as Iceland also have remarkably low death rates. It is the temperate, winter latitudes that have extremely high death rates. Here's the graph, you can see for yourself. A very clear trend based on latitude. https://github.com/yters/covid-19-latitude/blob/master/coronavirus_hemisphere.png https://github.com/yters/covid-19-latitude/blob/master/coron... I'm not sure why this trend isn't discussed more in the popular media. Seems quite significant, and is very easy to reproduce. Just scrape Google's covid-19 stats and join with a geographic coordinate source. A journalist could do this by hand with an Excel spreadsheet in about half an hour. If this trend holds up, then as the Northern hemisphere hits summer, the death rates should plummet. On the other hand, in the Southern hemisphere as winter approaches the death rates will go up.
• kasperni 6y ago
  > Trivial counter-example: Iceland. Iceland actually has Vitamin D deficiency levels comparable to a country such as Greece [1][2]. Supplements such as fish oil liver are in widespread use. [1] https://www.careacross.com/blog/are-you-getting-enough-vitamin-d#.XrxLshP0kWo https://www.careacross.com/blog/are-you-getting-enough-vitam... [2] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/4/1033/4662891 https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/4/1033/4662891