Sort by deaths/1M. You’ll see the US doing better than UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, etc.
And in absolute terms, there’s still more cases and deaths in Europe as a whole (I find it funny that when it comes to GDP, we like to think of Europe as “United States of Europe”, but when talking about corona deaths, not so much).
WRT. "United States of Europe", thanks to the EU, you can often consider the Union as a unit in terms of trade; Europe is also more homogenous culturarly than the states. However, when talking about COVID-19, EU has almost zero influence on how the pandemic is handled (somewhat by design, definitely by vote); it's only meaningful to talk about individual nations, with their own healthcare systems, their own emergency policies, and their own sovereign, locked down borders.
Now take into account that these countries have supposedly superior healthcare systems, a healthier population, and leaders not named Trump. I’d say that negates those factors.
If you include all European countries you get a different story.
And Europe has roughly double the population of the US, it's not surprising that it has more cases in absolute numbers.
And yet we’re constantly compared against these countries and told they’re doing things “right” and the US is a disaster.
> If you include all European countries you get a different story.
You mean a bunch of Eastern European countries that basically aren’t doing any testing?
> And Europe has roughly double the population of the US, it's not surprising that it has more cases in absolute numbers.
EU 446M versus US 330M...
Why is it so difficult to stick with the same terms and definitions? Just in this thread Europe has been defined in like five different ways, all of which are various subsets, presumably picked to suit each argument as needed.
An article that really shows that difference is: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lbsbusinessstrategyreview/2020/...
New York City recently reclassified 3K+ deaths as “likely” due to Covid, despite none of those people having been tested. And our CDC’s guidelines state that anyone who died WITH Covid is assumed to have died FROM Covid. I would say we’re definitely not being conservative with the reporting here...
But my point was that picking a handful of countries and calling them Europe isn't very accurate at all.
