>The pandemic already is under control in most places This is an interesting claim. I think it's potentially misleading, and possibly motivated by a need to po

>The pandemic already is under control in most places This is an interesting claim. I think it's potentially misleading, and possibly motivated by a need to portray places where it isn't under control as isolated. I suppose it might be technically correct if you count a list of "places" and divide the number where it is growing rapidly by the number where it isn't. However, the results you get are very dependent on how you define a "place". If you divide the world into Europe, North America, Asia, South America, Africa, and Oceania, the only one that definitely seems to be under control right now is Oceania. Africa and Europe are growing much slower than the others, but not obviously "under control", and Asia notably is seeing over 60,000 new cases per day even though it previously seemed to be under control until India started reporting large increases. If you count countries, you could claim that about 3/4 of them have it under control, but that might not be permanent. Considering Brazil (which I think people would generally consider to have a serious problem right now) and everywhere the epidemic is growing faster, it is a minority of countries, but very near half of the world population. Source (as usual) is https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/