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by seemslegit 2269 days ago
This, so much this. Especially for mortality rates where the US is currently doing better than most large developed countries.
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grecy 2269 days ago
> Especially for mortality rates where the US is currently doing better than most large developed countries

That's to be expected, because deaths lag behind infections by a week or two. [1] and we know the US was a couple of weeks behind Italy and Spain in their infections blowing up.

We'll have to wait until a couple of weeks after peak infections before we can see the true mortality rate in any given region/country.

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/9350/1*r-ddYhoUtP_se6x-NOEinA.pn...

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seemslegit 2269 days ago
True, and for overall infection rates as well, but the headline talks about the current situation and is misleading.
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jsyedidia 2269 days ago
For deaths, the USA has a total of 1,184, and the 8 countries of Western Europe have 15,437, or about 14 times higher on a per-capita basis.
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seemslegit 2269 days ago
Yes those are dominated by Spain and Italy, but even the UK has more than 2x deaths per-capital than the US.
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