New Covid-19 cases yesterday:
Spain: 301
UK: 689
Belgium: 66
Portugal: 229
Italy: 142
Denmark: 17
Germany: 440
Total new cases yesterday from the above 7 European countries: 1,884
Total population of the above countries: 284.52 million, or about 87% of the US population
New Covid-19 cases in the United States yesterday:
46,042, or about 24.44 times the number of new cases than the total of the above 7 European countries
Is that explainable because we are testing more than the above European countries? No. In all but two of the above European countries, the above European nations are conducting more tests per million than we are. In one of the remaining two (Italy), they are testing at about 89% of the rate that we are. However, we have 60 times the new cases per million that they have. In Germany, they are presently testing at 65% of the rate as we are, and yet we have 28 times the new cases per million that we have. The only comparable major European nation to the US is France. We are conducting about 5 times the tests per million as they are, and yet we have 8 times the number of new cases that they have.
The US leadership has failed in containing Covid-19, and the buck stops at Donald Trump. His obsessive, singular focus on his image and his ego has contributed to 130,000 US deaths, over 25% of the world's total when we only have 4.25% of the world's population, and crippling economic closures.
Anyone claiming that American leadership has done even an adequate job at controlling the disease in this country is either lying, delusional, or so immersed in partisan loyalty that they have blinded themselves to the facts.
