The difference – which is leading to the rapidly rising death toll in the US – is that European countries achieved a much faster decline of the outbreak.
[source ourworldindata.org/coronavirus]
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[direct link to this chart ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da…]
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Here is the latest testing data relative to the size of the outbreak. Except for Sweden, Western Europe does better than the US.
[Source ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-te…]
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It is very good that this rate is coming down in the US, but European countries have a much lower rate already.
–> ourworldindata.org/grapher/positi…
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