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by MauranKilom 2102 days ago
> Also what world do you live in where the EU is doing better then most of the world? Half the EU countries are in the top 20 deaths / pop.

...because the EU was the center of the first wave, at a point where the whole world was scrambling to find and implement appropriate mitigations.

Try this chart: https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=eur&are...

In any case, the post you're replying to claimed that "we are dealing with the economic challenge[s] posed by COVID better than most of the rest of the world."

I'm not sure why the death numbers, even if they were not confounded like this, would be a meaningful measure for that.