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by csomar 2129 days ago
The US is doing way more testing than most of the populous countries in the EU.
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What's the percentage of positive test results out of all test results in the US vs most of the populous countries in Europe?
Higher. US positive rate is 6.9%, Europe is mostly quite a bit lower (Austria 2.5%, Belgium 3%, France 2.4%, Germany 0.9%, Italy 1.9%, Scandinavia <1% except Sweden 3.5%, UK 0.7%) except Spain (7.2%) and Croatia (10.3%).

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing