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Monday, May 25, 2020

The United States Does NOT Lead in Coronavirus Deaths

The sheer ease with which the American left has politicized the deaths of thousands of Americans has shocked even me. The United States is approaching 100,000 deaths and the left seems determined to make sure the public blames President Donald Trump for those deaths. As PJM’s Tyler O’Neil noted, the Democratic Coalition is trying to make “Trump Death Toll” a thing. While Tyler effectively demonstrated the absurdity of blaming these deaths on Trump, I’m going to show that despite the headlines that suggest things in the United States are the worst in the world, that is emphatically not the case.

First, let’s take a look at the total confirmed deaths of the ten worst-hit countries in descending order (based on the numbers from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University as of 9:30 am ET May 24).
1. USA (96,046)
2. 
UK (36,757)
3. Italy (32,735)
4. Spain (28,678)
5. France (28,218)
6. 
Brazil (22,013)
7. Belgium (9,280)
8. Germany (8,275)
9. Iran (7,417)
10. Netherlands (5,841)

But, here’s what happens when you adjust these numbers per capita. The following countries are arranged in descending order by their coronavirus death rate per million people (based on population data from The CIA World Factbook).

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

So much misinformation is out there about this. That someone actually has to explain this is the real issue. So many people have been dumbed down they have completely lost any ability to think. Just like making the false claim that Covid 19 has a higher death rate. There is no way to determine yet if it does or doesn't this because of under reporting. The cases that go undiagnosed have to figure into any equation to get any accuracy in a death rate.
Same with saying this causes more severe illness. That happens with any infection just as any infection can and does cause long term health problems with some people. It's just they are hearing about it now so it seems to them this is worse.
what I've most come away with from this virus is just how many dumbed down people surround us.

Anonymous said...

There's something very wrong about all of this. The timing, the lying, the numbers; all of it smells something awful.

Anonymous said...

For some reason I find it odd China is not in the top 10 in total deaths. Perhaps their data collection is a bit, um, slow.

Anonymous said...

"But, here’s what happens when you adjust these numbers per capita. The following countries are arranged in descending order by their coronavirus death rate per million people (based on population data from The CIA World Factbook).

Belgium (791.76)
Spain (573.38)
UK (558.95)
Italy (524.58)
France (415.90)
Sweden (391.87)
Netherlands (338.01)
Ireland (309.86)
USA (288.74)
Switzerland (226.80)
It makes an amazing difference, doesn’t it? The United States dropped from number 1 to number 9 once you adjusted for population."

And then there's NYC.

Staff Mathematician said...

Still cherrypicking by one disease, when these "statistics" are taken from hospitals writing "C" on heart attack victims' death certs! We compared ALL DEATHS on May 1&3 and found lower numbers than in the last 3 years!

Let's get real...

Anonymous said...

5% of the worlds population , 25% of the deaths.
Need i say more?

Anonymous said...

Good point. When you put it that way it really highlights just how badly our federal government failed in it’s response to this pandemic.

Anonymous said...

This just goes to show how easy it is to mislead people with statistics. People need to wake up and think about what It is they are being told before just blindly accepting it as fact. The truth is the US LAGS, not leads the world in Covid-19 cases per capita, just like it LAGS, not leads the world in Covid-19 testing per capita. Wake up people!