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"Bangladesh has so few deaths because their response was vastly superior, better funded, better organized, technologically superior in its testing and tracing?
by Mvandenbergh 6y ago
"Bangladesh has so few deaths because their response was vastly superior, better funded, better organized, technologically superior in its testing and tracing? Comeon."
Take into account that beating this virus through contact tracing and isolation doesn't require having the fanciest tech. The actual steps are really simple.
Germany is wealthy enough that it doesn't have an infectious disease response "machine" on standby at every level, Bangladesh is not. Bangladeshi public health teams deal with outbreaks of deadly infectious disease all the time, that's not true in any wealthy country.
I don't doubt that if you gave each country five years, Germany would come up with a better funded, equipped (and maybe even trained) public health system but this was a situation where days mattered.
- rossdavidh 6y agoIt would be quite a coincidence if Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam all just had different reasons for having lower death totals (by a LOT) per capita than all the nations of western Europe. An explanation that didn't require a different explanation for every nation in east Asia is a lot more convincing, I think.