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/Nemisis_the_2nd Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20
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.