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.
