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Why is Europe improving on the battle against COVID-19, but the US is just getting worse at it?

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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 …

US fatalities per capita now exceeds EU’s. UK is fast approaching Italy’s dark figures.

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Covid-19 will be remembered for centuries to come, how the modern world bowed to one of nature’s most insidious killers, in the same way people thought the Titanic to be unsinkable. As with the Titanic, the modern world considered itself unbeatable, immortal and imune to whatever nature would throw at it. Now, with more than half the world’s population locked indoors We realize, nature is, and probably will always be, a force to be reckoned with. It will also be remembered by how some of the world’s leaders miserably failed, in protecting their homelands, their populations and their most vulnerable. Some had excuses. Where the first hit, unprepared, and unknowingly of what was coming from a poorly known disease, although China overcome it, taking one for the few advantages of a totalitarian government, subduing the population and the disease. From western countries, the challenge was to perform equally as well, but without endangering democracy. Spain and Italy were first hit, and took the entire brunt of the disease. President Trump made fun at the poor manner by which the EU was handling the problem. How the virus grazed through Europe’s elders. And specially as the US was performing so much …

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