[landryraccoon]

Cases is a very poor metric for this because a country that does zero tests will have zero cases, and therefore look very good.

Total deaths IMHO is much more comparable statistic between countries. By that metric it looks a little better for the US, since we have slightly less than a third of the world death total.

[dwaltrip]

For a better comparison, I think you need to look at deaths per capita.

The US is somewhere in the middle of the pack on this metric.

[Skunkleton]

That doesn’t capture what’s important. There are plenty of places that could probably have never closed and not had any real spike in infections. It’s places where people live densely that are at the greatest risk. The Bay Area in particular probably isn’t at the top of that list, but it is still a higher risk area. Really we just need more testing, and randomized testing. I think we would all be able to move forward more intelligently if we had data.