TIME: U.S. Response to COVID-19 is Worse than China's. 100 Times Worse.

[kpete]

The COVID-19 death rate in the U.S. has now passed 340 per million residents, just over 100 times the rate in China.

Let that sink in: The death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. is 100 times greater than it is in China, where the virus first emerged in humans and where the Trump Administration claims the blame should lie for letting the pandemic get out of hand.

And it’s not just China that kept its death rate low. Austria, Germany, and Greece have significantly lower per-capita mortality rates than the U.S. In the East Asia and Pacific region, Australia, Hong Kong, Mongolia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were all able to keep their COVID-19 fatalities below 7 deaths per million residents. Vietnam, with a population of 96 million, has suffered no reported deaths at all. Countries that acted early and effectively on the available information were able to avoid the worst of the pandemic.

The stark disparity in COVID-19 death rates between the U.S. and other countries illustrates the enormous difference between the effectiveness of the U.S. and successful countries’ responses to the pandemic.

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The hard truth in the U.S.’s sobering death rate during this pandemic is that a great many of those deaths were preventable. Countries that took swift, coordinated action have been largely able to avoid the worst effects of the virus, save thousands of lives, and start to reopen their economies, even though no country is avoiding the inevitable economic pain. The U.S., on the other hand, continues to waste valuable time. Unless it aggressively implements the lessons to be learned from successful nations, we fear the U.S. death rate may rise to 200 times that of China.


https://time.com/5850680/u-s-response-covid-19-worse-than-chinas/

[liberal N proud]

1. This is trumps pandemic

Him and his cult

[Jarqui]

2. I don't buy China's numbers but

we know Trump and the GOP are doing everything they can to suppress the numbers too.

The US has about 4% of the world's population and 28% of the deaths and 29% of the cases. No matter how anyone spins it, those are lousy numbers. A majority of Americans feel that Trump bears much of the responsibility for that.

Now that the virus is starting to climb in the red states, it's probably going to get worse as the Magats wonder why they have to send their dead off in a refrigerator truck. Obituaries cannot be passed off as fake news.

[procon]

3. USA! USA! USA! We're number one!

This is what happens when there is no leadership.