[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

[esja]

Assertions aren't arguments, and I've already addressed that comment.

Switzerland had 142 deaths in the past 24 hours. That is FOUR OR FIVE TIMES the number of daily per capita deaths in the USA at the moment. It is perfectly reasonable to believe that on this basis, Switzerland is having a tougher time right now than the USA.

I don't know why you are so doggedly refusing to accept the very simple point I have made here, which relies on nothing more than public facts and basic arithmetic.

Thanks for the discussion, but I have to assume you're not here in good faith, so I'm done. All the best.