Thread by @ritholtz

US Covid Deaths = 436,839 deaths out of 2,209,277 Global Deaths

USA, once 25% of Covid deaths with only 4% of world's population, has fallen to 19.8% of Covid-mortality.

We suck, just less a little less than we did when the pandemic began . . .

coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

And please, see if you can avoid making excuses for negligent mass homicide we witnessed in the USA

Here is the USA versus countries that managed their response well and versus others that did poorly: Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people

ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da…

This is the group that very much sucks at keeping their citizens safe:

United Kingdom
Italy
United States
Spain
Peru
Mexico
Portugal
France
Sweden
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia

This is the group that did much better at keeping their citizens safe:

Thailand
Israel
Canada
Japan
Australia
South Korea
Denmark
India
New Zealand
Singapore
Germany