Posted on 07/08/2020 7:26:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States has long prided itself as the world's shining beacon. But its current status is a much darker one: the globe's leader in coronavirus cases.
More than 125,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US, and more than 2.5 million Americans have been infected.
American life has been irrevocably altered by the worst pandemic in a century. And as the country struggles to reopen, cases of Covid-19 have surged again -- this time in young people and in states that had previously avoided the brunt of the virus. Here, in dollars, percentages and — most tragically — lives, is the pandemic's devastating toll on the US.
The US death toll is more than twice as high as that of the country with the second-highest death rate, Brazil. That South American country has reported more than 57,600 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University's global case count.
Leaders in both countries have continued to downplay the severity of coronavirus. President Donald Trump has refused to wear masks in public, which research has proven can control the spread of the virus, and has encouraged businesses to resume operations against the guidance of health officials who believe premature reopenings could lead to surges in cases like the US is seeing now.
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro called coronavirus a "little flu" and maintains that an economic shutdown would be worse for the country than the pandemic. He's also eschewed mask and social distancing guidance in public and has been criticized for underreporting coronavirus deaths.
More people are infected with and die from coronavirus in the US than anywhere else in the world.
There are a few explanations for this disproportionate share of cases.
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CNN, taking careful aim at their foot.
Could it be because the US was TARGETED for the virus?
Yeah. Define “case” or “verified case”?
Irrelevant statistic.
In other news, Japan has the highest per-capita rate of Japanese people.
And obviously more testing. If no one on my block gets tested then my block will have zero cases. Crap. I need to go back to work.
How much testing do you think they do in Chad or Somalia?
Could it be that we test for the virus more than anyone else?
The dirty truth is that most modern wars don’t really kill all that many people. We killed almost as many people every year in auto accidents than the number of US military killed during the entire Vietnam war. And more than in the entire Korean war.
i.e. this is just “sensationalizing”.
Pay no attention to the non-reporting of any actual meaningful data out of China.
First the MSM was screaming “we need more testing”. Then surprise, surprise, with more testing we find more cases, many of which now are asymptomatic. The same MSM then screams “look at all the cases!”. F*ck the MSM.
yeah, and how much testing is Mexico doing?
Liars, the US has 4.37% of the population, not 4%. If they’re going to yell at PDJT for rounding numbers I’ll yell at SinNN
And I’m sure the PRC is reporting accurate numbers, and Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia, Malaysia.
The Chinese didn’t fly their contagious COVID-19 folk to every country on earth, perhaps because the Chicoms made a deal with them or had other plans for such countries.
They did, however, want to make an example in Italy, then do their damndest to maximize the effect in the US.
and we would have much more if Biden, Pelosi got their way by not closing down travel, and telling people to go out and eat, drink, and Trump is a racist, so what is your point CNN?
Yes. Nearly all of them in Democrat run cities.
We’re Number One!!!!
We lost less people than the Vietnamese in Vietnam, we also lost nowhere near as many people as Germany or Japan did in World War II.
What is the rate of TESTING in the rest of the world?
You have NO IDEA how many COVID-19 cases there are in 90% of other countries.
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