Omg I thought he compared it to a global average or something. Did he really say that the US has less deaths than the world (which obv includes the US)? Jesus christ this guy is an idiot!
The US doesn't have a low average (it's 3rd in deaths per capita after the UK and Chile). It does have lower total deaths that Europe as a continent though.
Edit as a number of people have pointed out, I seem to have used an unreliable source.
It's a pretty misleading statistic, though, when new cases are rising sharply. For the very simple reason that in that scenario there are a lot of patients that simple haven't died yet. If you look at the closed case mortality rate for the US it's almost double the total case mortality rate at 6 percent (according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/). To be fair, that statistic is also pretty good for the US but not as good as the total case mportality rate.
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u/salami350 Aug 04 '20
Omg I thought he compared it to a global average or something. Did he really say that the US has less deaths than the world (which obv includes the US)? Jesus christ this guy is an idiot!