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Vietnam has 35 in a country of 90 million people.
by p49k 6y ago
Vietnam has 35 in a country of 90 million people.
- tome 6y agoWow, that's amazing. How is that possible?
- crispyambulance 6y agoSane leadership, people who listen to facts, preparation, contact tracing.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoCould it be that they have one (if not the best) obesity rate in the world? I’m suspicious that this isn’t just countries with order of magnitude healthier populations (although maybe they have malnourishment the US doesn’t have).
- crispyambulance 6y agoThe USA and Vietnam have almost the same life-expectancy stats. I don't think one can say the difference in health is "an order of magnitude".
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoObesity in Vietnam is 1%...lowest in the world. Versus US with ~42%. We know the seriousness of obesity wrt covid.
- tome 6y agoSeems like this relationship would be very easy to discover in the worldwide statistics.
- rsynnott 6y agoIf this was the decisive factor, you'd expect Belgium, Italy and France to have low rates, with Germany, the UK, and most of Eastern Europe having high rates. This turns out not to be the case.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoMaybe not - but I'd guess that some combination of lack of chronic disease like obesity/diabetes on top of mask usage helped a lot. If the lack of chronic disease leads to less severe covid, you'd expect the nosocomial spread factor of the pandemic is lower.
- rhino369 6y agoThey throw anyone who had any contact with someone who had covid in quarantine camps. Basically, the power of being an authoritarian government where people have no rights. Probably also a fair bit of luck. Those tactics don’t scale. So they only work when you catch it early. The wrong travels visit a conference and it’s impossible to keep up. There is some speculation Asian counties had some level of immunity from past epidemics, but it’s only a hypothesis at this point.