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The following statistics come from ncov2019.live/, a great source for up-to-the-minute covid-19 data.
I'm just going to present some of the numbers as of September 4, 2020. You can come to your own conclusions.
The US represents 4.3 percent of the world population.
We've had 24 percent of the recorded Covid-19 cases in the world.
I'm just going to present some of the numbers as of September 4, 2020. You can come to your own conclusions.
The US represents 4.3 percent of the world population.
We've had 24 percent of the recorded Covid-19 cases in the world.
We've had 2.2 million more cases than India, the next most impacted country, India's population is more than four times that of the US.
We've suffered 22 percent of the world's Covid-19 deaths; 191,221 as of 9/4/20.
We've suffered 22 percent of the world's Covid-19 deaths; 191,221 as of 9/4/20.
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Covid-19 deaths per million population as of 9/4/20
Peru 890
Belgium 853
Spain 629
United Kingdom 611
Chile 600
Italy 588
Brazil 587
UNITED STATES 578
Sweden 577
...
Japan 471
France 470
...
Netherlands 364
Ireland 359
...
Norway 264
Canada 243
South Africa 245
Switzerland 232
Argentina 209
...
Russia 121
Germany 112
Denmark 108
WORLD 113
...
India 50
Norway 49
Australia 29
Hong Kong 13
Singapore 5
China 3
Iceland 0
To save you the calculations, the US has suffered 5.12 times as many deaths per million than the world as a whole.
Given that we've lost 191,388 people to Covid-19 as of today, if we had managed to just be mediocre, to keep our death rate down to the global average, we would have saved nearly 150,000 lives. Wouldn't it be great just to be average?
In comparison, here are some statistics about US war casualties:
Persian Gulf War 2,586
Korean War 36,574
Vietnam 58,220
World War I 116,516
World War II 405,399
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