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> Is 10% less than the 2 worst european countries really worth applauding? Also 10% isn't dramatic in my book. Average US death rate for the last 7 days is stil
by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Is 10% less than the 2 worst european countries really worth applauding? Also 10% isn't dramatic in my book. Average US death rate for the last 7 days is still 5 times higher than France for example.
How are you calculating this? Comparing the death rates for these four countries one would need to alter the numbers significantly to get the US at 5x France and the UK/Sweden at >5x France: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-million?tab=chart&country=USA~FRA~GBR~SWE https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-mi...
Note: I hope this chart loads. The page is giving me a JS exception so I could only see the chart on the main page (https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths). If it doesn't load, scroll down the main page to "Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people" and edit the chart to add those four curves.
- Voloskaya 6y ago> How are you calculating this? You are looking at the entire timespan while I said "Average for the last 7 days". But I agree that this metric is not a good indicator of anything given the lag between when the epidemy started in Europe vs US. My mistake on that.
- vonmoltke 6y agoSorry, I missed that you had specified 7 days. I was looking at the post you were responding to, which was referencing overall death rate.