[dredmorbius]

False.

At this writing, Europe as a whole has a population of 747.8 million, and 14.1 million COVID-19 cases, for a population-adjusted rate of 18,900 per million.

The US incidence rate is 34,400/1M, 182% of Europe's.

For mortality, EU: 434/1M US: 760/1M.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula...

[esja]

It's not false at all. The key words are "right now". You are including numbers from months ago.

[dredmorbius]

EU has 8.57m active cases for a 11,500/1M active case rate.

US has 4.23m active cases, for 12,800/1M active case rate.

Note that Spain, UK, Netherlands, and Sweden don't report on active or recovered cases. Nor does the US state of Oregon.

The margin is much thinner, though reported data still give the edge to the EU. Given that Spain and the UK represent large current EU outbreaks, that margin could shift to the advantage of the US.

I'll note that US cases are continuing to grow largely unhindered whilst several EU outbreaks (notably France) may have peaked as lockdowns' impacts are seen.

[esja]

Europes daily deaths per head of population are currently much higher than the US. See my comment & links above.

[dredmorbius]

Very flawed analysis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117779

[esja]

Only by the least charitable interpretation of the point I am making. There's nothing wrong with using the current death rate per capita as a proxy for the problems a country is experiencing "right now". Which is the context for this sub-thread.

[dredmorbius]

There's nothing wrong with using the current death rate per capita as a proxy for the problems a country is experiencing "right now.

False.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25122544