World Coronavirus Death Regions & Why

Abstract

Data analysis of the world’s coronavirus deaths and their locations was conducted from April 2020 through November 2021. The Worldometer Coronavirus was used exclusively for this analysis. It was decided to focus on deaths rather than cases as the deaths per case varied widely across the world from as low as 0.5% to as high as 10+%. Although it was expected that there would be variations in accounting from country to country, expectation was also that deaths were definitive. Although the actual death numbers were meaningful, what was far more important was the when, where, and why the deaths occurred in specific locations. The concept of locations initially was considered countries, but was altered to mean regions of the world as this analysis proceeded. What became apparent as this analysis continued was that the deadly coronavirus regions had common attributes of importance. The most important identified include (a) geography and topography, (b) population density and urban population, (c) seasonal meteorology meaning world tropical jet streams and temperature inversions created, (d) major sources of pollution emissions.