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Originally Posted by prydey
my observations are the opposite. There seems to be a focus on US numbers rather than the UK or euro countries.
The UK is over 3 times worse than the US as far as case mortality rate is concerned. Of course this is influenced by the number of positive tests.
The US is a similar size to ALL of Europe, by population. Its hardly a fair comparison to compare the US numbers to individual European countries.
Also remember that the case numbers didn't start exploding in the US until after europe were well in to the thick of it which is why Italy and spain etc had a lot of focus a few months ago, and now the US does.
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There is a bit of a disparity. Europe has 159M more people than North America but has had considerably less cases (2.7M v 4.8M) and although they are almost level for deaths at ~200k, the US CMR of 4.17% is lower than the 7.33% of Europe.
Where the US numbers look bad is the 841 (compared to 370) cases per 100k of population and more importantly the 35 (v 27) deaths per 100k of population.