Not having seen any charts of covid deaths per million, I was moved this afternoon to make one for myself, using populations from Wikipedia and covid deaths from the FT death tracker. These last are described as today's figures, but I have not done any checking, for example, for inclusion or not of care homes. In any event they will certainly suffer from the now well known difficulties of counting covid deaths, particularly of older people with other things wrong with them.
The result is that while we are not doing very well, we are much the same as three or four other large and sophisticated countries. But what are the Germans and the Portuguese getting right?
US a special case, not like Europe at all.
Possible but unlikely that I will attempt a correction for age structure.
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