Another set of data people are looking at with curiosity is Asia, and why the Asian countries have had remarkably fewer deaths per million than Europe, USA, Brazil etc.
Here is a list of Asian countries and those bordering China
If you look on the right side for the column marked deaths per million, you can see that the very highest death rate per million is 23, many are below 10. How can this be? Many European countries have death rates of 500-600 per million, USA is just under 400 per million.
So why did all these Asian countries fare so much better?
They all wore masks: Nope, some of these countries do, and some don't
They locked down better: Nope, some of them didn't even lock down at all,
The virus has changed: There are no studies that say the virus has become more lethal. One study that says the virus became more contagious has been criticized by many and actually does not prove anything. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, also urged caution about the Los Alamos study. While he identified the mutation as a new strain, he said he has his doubts that the virus is now more transferable. “It (the study) doesn’t prove that this new strain is, in fact, more infectious,” Gottlieb said on CNBC's Squawk Box
So what could it be? Some think proximity to China and other coronaviruses has given these populations a higher level of built in immunity. The low numbers point to something other than mitigation efforts etc