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Gibraltar seems sadly edifying too: no deaths until November, highest (world-wide) total per-capita deaths at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/
by davidgay 6y ago
Gibraltar seems sadly edifying too: no deaths until November, highest (world-wide) total per-capita deaths at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/gibraltar/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/gibraltar/, but cases are now also basically down to 0 (and https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations has the vaccinated population (not just doses) at above 100%...).
- smnrchrds 6y agoTerritories with low populations tend to be at one of the two extremes. Reminds me of how Vatican has always had the lowest murder rate in the world (0 per 100k population), except in 1998 when it became the murder capital of the world (256 per 100k population).
- sgerenser 5y agoOr all the 90s studies about how small (k-12) schools were so much more effective than large ones, and it turned out to just be an artifact of the data. Smaller schools had much more dispersion in outcomes, just as you’d expect. So they had both the best and worst outcomes.