In terms of per capita deaths and infections from Covid the US is completely unremarkable when compared to its peers in the cohort of Western industrialized nations. Maybe Trump didn't do a great job with Covid but neither did the UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Belgium, etc.
In terms of per capita deaths and infections from Covid the US is completely unremarkable when compared to its peers in the cohort of Western industrialized nations. Maybe Trump didn't do a great job with Covid but neither did the UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Belgium, etc.
Europe was weeks ahead of us in the pandemic. We had the resources and the lead time to do better, and we've consistently had more deaths per capita than the EU and more than twice the deaths per capita in Canada.
But even aside from comparisons, look at how Trump handled the pandemic. He didn't even try for basic coordination and leadership, and he actively made it worse by promoting irresponsible behavior.
UK, Croatia, Italy, Belgium, Czechia all have more deaths per capita than US, and Spain, France, Portugal, Romania are basically tied with the US (~1700). Germany is somewhat lower, I guess?
also America was overtesting using 40 PCR cycles (hence overcounting deaths), excess deaths show that U.S. is a bit under EU but we won't really know until the end of 2022, when we see how flu season does
In terms of per capita deaths and infections from Covid the US is completely unremarkable when compared to its peers in the cohort of Western industrialized nations. Maybe Trump didn't do a great job with Covid but neither did the UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Belgium, etc.
Europe was weeks ahead of us in the pandemic. We had the resources and the lead time to do better, and we've consistently had more deaths per capita than the EU and more than twice the deaths per capita in Canada.
But even aside from comparisons, look at how Trump handled the pandemic. He didn't even try for basic coordination and leadership, and he actively made it worse by promoting irresponsible behavior.
UK, Croatia, Italy, Belgium, Czechia all have more deaths per capita than US, and Spain, France, Portugal, Romania are basically tied with the US (~1700). Germany is somewhat lower, I guess?
A lot of countries are lower. IтАЩm talking about all of Europe vs. US.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_cases&hideControls=true&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=USA~Europe&Metric=Confirmed+deaths
you're using Europe instead of EU (worse record-keeping in eastern Europe), here's the relevant comparison: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_cases&hideControls=true&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=European+Union~North+America
also America was overtesting using 40 PCR cycles (hence overcounting deaths), excess deaths show that U.S. is a bit under EU but we won't really know until the end of 2022, when we see how flu season does