While I was whitewater rafting over the weekend, the US of A has finally surpassed the EU27 in terms of overall death counts relating to COVID19 pandemic. This is without adjusting the figures for population size or pandemic onset timing, etc.
So here are the updated charts comparing the U.S. and the EU27:
In case numbers, the U.S. is on a clear ‘lead’ relative to ‘slow’ EU27. The latter has smashed the curve, the former is ‘enjoying’ a public health disaster befitting a country with no real public health institutions:
Click to enlarge
Or illustrated from a different angle:
Click to enlarge
Click to enlarge
And U.S. public health system, the pride of the nation and both President Trump and his competitor, Joe Biden, is firing on all cylinders:
Click to enlarge
Sarcasm aside, and recognizing the genuine nature of this tragedy, it is mind-boggling to think how the U.S. tolerates this level of leadership incompetence. If peak levels of deaths from COVID19 were coming from older patients (not that such a reality should have been acceptable in the first place), we are now witnessing increasing numbers of younger patients dying from the virus.
