The US has 4.2% of the world’s population and, according to the Johns Hopkins University data, 23.9% of its reported Covid-19 deaths. I am no epidemiologist, but the arithmetic seems pretty straightforward: until now, the average American has been 7.1 times as likely to die of...
...Covid-19 as the average non-American. Given that President Bush was supposed to have left the US with the best pandemic response in the world, and that his program was continued under President Obama, we would normally have expected the opposite: that the average American...
...should have been less likely to die from a global pandemic than the average non-American.
This isn't much consolation, but the US wasn't the only country whose citizens were far, far more likely to die of Covid-19 than its non-citizens. Here is a table of selected
This isn't much consolation, but the US wasn't the only country whose citizens were far, far more likely to die of Covid-19 than its non-citizens. Here is a table of selected
...countries:
UK9.8
Spain8.8
Italy8.4
Sweden7.6
US7.1
France6.7
Brazil5.2
Mexico3.9
Canada3.3
Germany1.5
Russia1.1
India0.2
Philippines0.2
Japan0.1
China0.04
UK9.8
Spain8.8
Italy8.4
Sweden7.6
US7.1
France6.7
Brazil5.2
Mexico3.9
Canada3.3
Germany1.5
Russia1.1
India0.2
Philippines0.2
Japan0.1
China0.04
