Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Thanks Muddy and Dave. It seems it's so hard to make comparisons between countries. For every one that seems to back a hypothesis (eg, my "hard and early"), there are others that don't and there are so many differences such as culture, population density etc.
The clearest correlation seems to be with longitude.

Furthest east: New Zealand, with very few Covid deaths. Australia, Japan, South Korea also doing very well (and China, although I don't trust the non-news coming out of that country). Europe doing much worse, with UK and Spain on the Western fringes particularly bad, and Eastern Europe not so bad. Then across the Atlantic to the Americas, and you find the real disaster areas for Covid deaths: USA, Brazil, Peru, etc.