Fact Check: Socialism Kills!

It's way too early to close the book on this, but there's already a strong correlation between economic freedom and COVID death rates.  Free markets save lives, and an unfree market (ie: socialism) kills.

To make this graph, I took the top 100 countries in the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom and calculated the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) as of 3/26/20 based on raw data from Worldometers.

I only included countries that had both significant COVID cases and could also be considered reasonably reliable data sources.  (China is not in the top 100, and I don't trust their numbers anyway.)

I'll update this periodically, and we'll see if it holds.  Below is the raw data.

(Note: The two outliers in the first quadrant are UK and Netherlands, which both have socialized medicine yet relatively free economies.  Again, it's very early in the progression of this pandemic, and there's a lot of data uncertainty.)

Country	Economic Freedom	Cases	Fatalities	Case Fatality Rate
Singapore	1	683	2	0.29%
Hong Kong	2	453	4	0.88%
Australia	4	2806	13	0.46%
Switzerland	5	11811	191	1.62%
Ireland	6	1564	9	0.58%
United Kingdom	7	11658	578	4.96%
Denmark	8	1877	41	2.18%
Canada	9	3897	37	0.95%
Estonia	10	538	1	0.19%
Iceland	13	802	2	0.25%
Netherlands	14	7431	434	5.84%
Chile	15	1306	4	0.31%
Lithuania	16	299	4	1.34%
United States	17	81864	1173	1.43%
Luxembourg	19	1453	9	0.62%
Finland	20	958	5	0.52%
Sweden	22	2840	71	2.50%
Czech Republic	23	1925	9	0.47%
Malaysia	24	2031	23	1.13%
Korea, South	25	9241	131	1.42%
Israel	26	2693	8	0.30%
Germany	27	43646	262	0.60%
Norway	28	3346	14	0.42%
Austria	29	6847	49	0.72%
Japan	30	1399	47	3.36%
Romania	38	1029	22	2.14%
Thailand	43	1045	4	0.38%
Poland	46	1221	16	1.31%
Belgium	48	6235	220	3.53%
Indonesia	54	893	78	8.73%
Portugal	56	3544	60	1.69%
Spain	58	56197	4145	7.38%
France	64	29155	1696	5.82%
Philippines	70	707	45	6.36%
Turkey	71	3629	75	2.07%
Greece	100	892	26	2.91%