88% of Canada’s coronavirus cases are considered recovered

Take a look at the deaths/confirmed cases ratio of Canada though. It's 8+%. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health/coronavirus/tracking-every-case-of-covid-19-in-canada-1.4852102

The states and brazil are at around 3.8%. S. Korea is at 2.2%, Japan 4.3%, Germany 4.4%,

And we know the confirmed case fatality rate is around 2-4% (depending on how deaths are counted and reported). So Canada's numbers make no sense unless testing is massively inadequate or the healthcare system is a failure. Most likely Canada's actual numbers are around 200k-300k cases. Which puts Canada at about 1/100 people infected, same as the states.

So I decided to google why, and I found this laughable article: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/study-links-good-health-care-in-canada-to-higher-covid-19-death-rate-1.5026480

"good health care in Canada to higher COVID-19 death rate" ????

They're reasoning is that Canada has more people surviving with heart problems. But

The study notes 11.7 per cent of Canadians suffer from cardiovascular disease, including strokes. That puts us in the top third among 63 countries studied -- worse than the 11.6 per cent found in the United States, 10 per cent in Russia, 7.6 per cent in South Korea, 4.3 per cent in India and 3.8 per cent in Pakistan.

and yet

For every 1 per cent increase in the number of people aged 65 years and older, the COVID-19 death rate was 9 per cent higher. Nearly 9 per cent of the Canadian population is 65 or older.

So 9% of Canadians are elderly (above 65), compared to around 15% of Americans, 15% of Koreans, 27% of Japanese etc. then we should expect that Korea and Japan have equal case fatality rates to Canada, but they don't.

The only way to explain these bizarre numbers is either Canada is severely under-tested, or the Canadian health care system is a complete and utter failure.

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