Why is Europe improving on the battle against COVID-19, but the US is just getting worse at it?
On July 24th, the US took a turn for the worse. From that week on, the US has getting worst and worst, almost doubling the fatality rate Let me just share a question that started to bug me a few weeks ago: “Doesn’t it seem strange that the US is reporting average daily COVID-19 deaths in the high hundreds while infection figures keep dropping?” This is a fairly long question, but sums some discussions I’ve been reading around, unfortunately commonly tainted by politics. First, let’s look at what the context. Over the past two months, the US has reported ever lower figures of new infections, and this effect was especially visible on the last couple of weeks, as we can check on the chart above. What is most striking is that on Europe, things are heating up, with new cases popping up literally on every single country, and at very significant rates. On some European countries, like Spain or France, the figure are fast approaching the dreadful scenario from the months of April and May, with infections beating 10 thousand infections per day, and deaths exceeding a hundred in some days. For other countries, like Czechia or Denmark, the number …
