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Besides the statistical anomaly at the end (probably a one time correction for some past cases) the US death rate has always been higher. So the gap has been wi

Besides the statistical anomaly at the end (probably a one time correction for some past cases) the US death rate has always been higher. So the gap has been widening until now. Look at cumulative cases. Only the derivative of the gap, the daily deaths per capita, has been narrowing. I agree that the daily numbers should become similar when prior immunity due to vaccination or infection becomes similar (all else being equal). But that does not erase the huge amount of deaths before people got their first vaccine.

jefftk 5y ago
Good point! In cumulative deaths per million: US AUS delta 2022-01-01 2477 87 2360 2022-02-01 2673 141 2532 2022-03-01 2852 204 2648 2022-04-01 2948 247 2701 I didn't look closely at the graph and I misread the recent apparent spike, which I agree with you is likely some kind of correction. I'm sorry I can't go back and edit my comment!