Showing posts with label US vs Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US vs Italy. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2020

2/4/20: US Record in Covid Response To-Date


Much of the rhetoric coming out of the Washington on COVID19 pandemic is centred around the claims that the U.S. response to the pandemic has been adequately scaled up, with some claims even referencing allegedly 'highest rates of testing' in the world. Here are two charts putting the U.S. Covid pandemic responses to comparatives:


Now, most current data:


Not only the U.S. number of cases has now exceeded double that of Italy, but the U.S. death toll is currently on track to exceed Italy's massive death tool within 4 days, should the trend to-date persist.

'World class' track record this is...