America has a higher fatality rate than all other countries
I'll update a comment I made elsewhere:
Just so you know, the US currently has 295 deaths/million, better (sometimes much better) than places like Spain (612), France (433), Italy (539), the Netherlands (339), Sweden (396), Belgium (797), and the UK (536).
In fact, if you take the total deaths from just those 7 EU countries and divide it by 446M (EU population), you will still have a higher death rate than the US -- even though you're totally ignoring 20 countries.
This is despite the fact that New York and other states have been listing "probable" deaths as confirmed deaths for a while now, contaminating a third of US deaths with faulty data. (To be fair to the EU, I understand Belgium has been doing this too).
We also learned recently that the US has been inadvertently counting patients twice:
Now that serology tests, which look for antibodies in the blood of people who have recovered, are more widespread, C.D.C. officials said Friday they would work to separate them from the results of diagnostic tests, which detect active infection. One of the agency’s data tracker websites has been lumping them together.
Stunned epidemiologists say data from antibody tests and active virus tests should never be mixed because diagnostic testing seeks to quantify the amount of active disease in the population. ... And patients who have had both diagnostic and serology tests would be counted twice in the totals.
Despite inflating numbers in at least two ways, the US is handling the pandemic better than the EU.
Red states aren't doing as well as blue states
As we can see from the state-by-state breakdown, 8 of the top 10 worst states are blue states. Of the 10 best states, 6 are red states (and Maine split its electoral votes.)
not enough testing
The US is crushing every other country in the world in total testing, with almost 14 million tests administered -- which partially explains our high number of confirmed cases.
Trump downplayed the virus
Literally everyone did.
Sources are the New York Times, 5/22/20 and https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ as of today, 5/24. If you want to confirm these numbers, you can click on the stat you want in the Worldometers table (for example, deaths/M) to sort by that stat.
America has a higher fatality rate than all other countries
I'll update a comment I made elsewhere:
Just so you know, the US currently has 295 deaths/million, better (sometimes much better) than places like Spain (612), France (433), Italy (539), the Netherlands (339), Sweden (396), Belgium (797), and the UK (536).
In fact, if you take the total deaths from just those 7 EU countries and divide it by 446M (EU population), you will still have a higher death rate than the US -- even though you're totally ignoring 20 countries.
This is despite the fact that New York and other states have been listing "probable" deaths as confirmed deaths for a while now, contaminating a third of US deaths with faulty data. (To be fair to the EU, I understand Belgium has been doing this too).
We also learned recently that the US has been inadvertently counting patients twice:
Now that serology tests, which look for antibodies in the blood of people who have recovered, are more widespread, C.D.C. officials said Friday they would work to separate them from the results of diagnostic tests, which detect active infection. One of the agency’s data tracker websites has been lumping them together.
Stunned epidemiologists say data from antibody tests and active virus tests should never be mixed because diagnostic testing seeks to quantify the amount of active disease in the population. ... And patients who have had both diagnostic and serology tests would be counted twice in the totals.
Despite inflating numbers in at least two ways, the US is handling the pandemic better than the EU.
Red states aren't doing as well as blue states
As we can see from the state-by-state breakdown,, 8 of the top 10 worst states are blue states. Of the 10 best states, 6 are red states (and Maine split its electoral votes.)
not enough testing
The US is crushing the world in total testing, with over 14 million tests administered, which partially explains our high number of confirmed cases.
Trump downplayed the virus
Literally everyone did.
Sources are the New York Times, 5/22/20 and https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ as of today, 5/24. If you want to confirm these numbers, you can click on the stat you want in the Worldometers table (for example, deaths/M) to sort by that stat.