Articles like this have been making the rounds this month, highlighting research that points to speaking English as a particularly dangerous language for spreading viruses.
The interesting part for me is that their research stopped at English because the Covid death data reveals a very strong pattern between language and death rates, and it’s not English at the top of the chart.
All of the top 10 countries in the world with the highest Covid death rates have high romance language speakers.
(As an aside, it has just dawned on me that the French province of Quebec has by far the highest Covid death rate in Canada, perhaps for the same reasons.)
Anyway, the data (as of September 25th, 2020) shows the top 10 Covid-19 death rate nations in the world are:
And of course, just outside of the top 10 are Italy and Mexico (along with the UK).
I am not making a scientific claim connecting language and virus spreading, only pointing out the interesting observation that there appears to be very strong correlation between a high death rate and the prevalence of romance languages.
Questioning The Data 