Thanks for the URL links to the CDC’s “official” numbers. Obviously you accept them, and so probably accept the whole WHO-Fauci-Collins taxonomy and data collection.
Johns Hopkins University's “official” data — ( 5,547,903 “global deaths” / 7,921,131,915 global population ) x 100 = 0.070% of the global population.
5,583,850 worldwide for a similar data report to JHU.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
If other "official" data suggest a worldwide ratio Covid deaths against population then the CDC is complicit is the worst "pandemic" response of any nation in the world, indicting the CDC, NIH and FDA as failing spectacularly.
The US ratio, representing that "official" CDC pandemic response stands at about 0.251 %, in comparison to the world's "official" 0.070%.
Some would conclude that the CDC is not to be trusted, as you faithfully trust and pass on their "fine" work to us.
CDC is not a monolith. In fact it is wracked with internal division and “office politics”, and disorganization. Inability to get rid of bad employees is a huge albatross, also.
So... CDC is possibly the worst agency in the gov’t, taken as a whole, but that said, pieces of it are halfway competent if time and efficiency are not part of the qualification. It’s data collection falls in that latter category. OTOH, it’s education / mitigation campaign on COVID via US media is possibly the most incompetent such effort I have ever witnessed.
Some would conclude Americans are the most bullheaded people in the world...*
We are also fatter and older than most of the world, with arguably poorer natural immunities to begin with.
*What I mean is, first, China’s numbers are almost certainly a farce: They should not even be included in the “rest of the world” data. That’s a big hunk of the denominator removed.
But, China’s data veracity aside, most of the world handled COVID so differently from the US and parts of the West, in ways unacceptable to most Americans (particularly the almost unbelievably Orwellian, intense surveillance and tracking of populations in places like China or even South Korea), that comparisons such as you make are just flat out irrelevant, unless one is trying to argue that unacceptable policies should be forced on us. I am not trying to be “mean” in saying that, it’s just the straight up truth.
As for CDC, first, it is not a monolith. The data side of it is slow and inefficient and generally “too low” (see flu seasons of the last decade, “in progress” seasonal reports vs. “final” reports once all the death certificates have been reviewed), but they usually seem to eventually be in the ballpark, and I know of no credible serious (as in off by a factor of 4 or something like that) challenges to what they finally determine in the way of fatalities.
OTOH, most of the rest of CDC is a mess. It’s program of public education via the media throughout COVID has been utterly incompetent and likely counterproductive.