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We have a very high number of cases per capita, and while we do perform a lot of tests, it's not like we lead in tests per capita. [Here's a good graph to play
by zaphod4prez 6y ago
We have a very high number of cases per capita, and while we do perform a lot of tests, it's not like we lead in tests per capita. [Here's a good graph to play around with](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=earliest..latest&country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~AUS~IND~ESP~DEU~FRA~AUT~ARG~BEL~BLR~BOL~BGR~CHN~COL~COM~CUB~DNK~EuropeanUnion~Europe~GEO~GRC~HUN~ISL~IDN~IRN~IRQ~IRL~ISR~ITA~JPN~MNE~MCO~MEX~MDA®ion=World&testsMetric=true&interval=total&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=ea...). We are middling to low in terms of tests per confirmed case (aka its not just that we're performing more tests than others), [here's that graph](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=2020-10-15..latest&country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~AUS~IND~ESP~DEU~FRA~AUT~ARG~BEL~BLR~BOL~BGR~CHN~COL~COM~CUB~DNK~EuropeanUnion~Europe~GEO~GRC~HUN~ISL~IDN~IRN~IRQ~IRL~ISR~ITA~JPN~MNE~MCO~MEX~MDA®ion=World&testsPerCaseMetric=true&interval=total&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=20...). And our case fatality rate is pretty good but not amazing (among first-world countries at least) [graph](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=2020-11-10..2020-12-19&country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~AUS~IND~ESP~DEU~FRA~AUT~BEL~BLR~BGR~CHN~COM~CUB~DNK~GEO~GRC~HUN~ISL~IDN~IRN~IRQ~IRL~ISR~ITA~JPN~MNE~MCO~MDA~BHR~NLD~NZL~NOR~PRT~QAT~RUS®ion=World&cfrMetric=true&interval=total&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=20...) ([Here's US vs World + regions CFR](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=2020-11-10..2020-12-19&country=USA~OWID_WRL~Europe~SouthAmerica~Asia~Africa®ion=World&cfrMetric=true&interval=total&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=20...)).
Note, you have to play around w selecting different countries and dates on that website, I wish they had some kind "select by GDP quartile" or something.