{"id":141511,"date":"2020-04-24T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/24\/is-comparing-covid-19-death-rates-across-europe-helpful\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:26:15","slug":"is-comparing-covid-19-death-rates-across-europe-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141511","title":{"rendered":"Is comparing Covid-19 death rates across Europe helpful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium appears hardest hit on paper. But counting, testing and lockdown differences may obscure full storyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEvery day, the statistics bring more grim headlines: \u201cItalian death toll passes 20,000\u201d, \u201cRecord UK daily death toll\u201d, \u201cEurope\u2019s fatalities pass 100,000\u201d. Across the world, people await national updates on the coronavirus \u2013 and compare their country with others.The comparison game has been especially marked in Belgium, which on paper has the unhappy title of highest number of Covid-19 deaths per capita in Europe. Belgium \u2013 population 11.5 million \u2013 has counted at least 6,675 deaths since the start of the outbreak, more than Germany, which is nearly eight times more populous. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/is-comparing-covid-19-death-rates-across-europe-helpful-\" target=\"_blank\">Is comparing Covid-19 death rates across Europe helpful?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium appears hardest hit on paper. But counting, testing and lockdown differences may obscure full storyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEvery day, the statistics bring more grim headlines: \u201cItalian death toll passes 20,000\u201d, \u201cRecord UK daily death toll\u201d, \u201cEurope\u2019s fatalities pass 100,000\u201d. Across the world, people await national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}