The media pushes the "U.S. has the most reported cases" statistic hard.
The "Total Cases / 1 M pop" and "Total Deaths / 1 M pop" are the only fair comparisons, but the media conveniently omit this because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Compared to the E.U. - which has a much more comparative population - the U.S. is doing a fantastic job.
There are a lot of factors that go into death rate.
For example Italy may have more b/c older population.
But the USA also gives a lot of resources to helping medically fragile people stay alive. Some of these folks have 5 different major conditions and live on home oxygen. They are likely to die if they get coronavirus. In many countries where rationing is accepted, these people would not still be around.
So it’s more complicated than just “who has a better system” although I think the USA does.
Yeah, we have just massively ramped up testing. Of course we have a lot of KNOWN cases now.
The USA always leads the world in mobilization against a crisis once we get in gear.
👆👆👆USA set the bar for mobilization. American exceptionalism exists for a reason.
Most REPORTED cases.
We know China is lying.
The media pushes the "U.S. has the most reported cases" statistic hard.
The "Total Cases / 1 M pop" and "Total Deaths / 1 M pop" are the only fair comparisons, but the media conveniently omit this because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Compared to the E.U. - which has a much more comparative population - the U.S. is doing a fantastic job.
There are a lot of factors that go into death rate.
For example Italy may have more b/c older population.
But the USA also gives a lot of resources to helping medically fragile people stay alive. Some of these folks have 5 different major conditions and live on home oxygen. They are likely to die if they get coronavirus. In many countries where rationing is accepted, these people would not still be around.
So it’s more complicated than just “who has a better system” although I think the USA does.
Have you lived in any other country? I have and let me say there is no greater nation on this planet, USA is the best by far!
About 4 times as many cases as Iran and France, about the same amount of total deaths or less
That’s because of our greedy capitalistic healthcare that has the most emergency care beds in the world by a few times over.
At this point, I think comparing any numbers other than the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus is probably worthless.
The number of cases is determined largely by how much testing you are doing.
The number of deaths can be significantly skewed depending on how the deaths are being reported.
People being hospitalized with the virus seems to be a pretty stable measure across all countries.
Far right Columns are all that actually matters