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    1. Chris Selley‏Verified account @cselley 6 Sep 2020

      Chris Selley Retweeted Jeet Heer

      Surely it’s not remotely shocking. If I woke up from a six-month coma today and you told me “the US did far better than Italy managing a global pandemic,” THAT would shock me.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1302774315583037441 …

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      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      It looks like USA will overtake Italy in per capita Covid deaths (or rather official per capita Covid deaths) in a few days. We've been inured to Covid news but this is remarkable and shocking.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020
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      I dunno. It's shocking to me because USA had a number of real advantages -- Covid started in USA later, it's a richer country which spends more on medicine per capita. The bungling has been startling

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        1. Susan Hatch‏ @SusaHatch 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @cselley

          There's no real public health, tho. Many people don't have health insurance, and the country has been okay for decades w poor people dying prematurely due to no healthcare. There's also climate change denial. I didn't think the right would deny medical science too, but they did.

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        1. John D.‏ @FriendlessTwit 6 Sep 2020
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          And residents of the hardest hit state got with the program early.

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        1. Alexander Lee‏ @post_vermouth 6 Sep 2020
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          Comparing per capita health spending in the US to that of a country with (much more cost-effective) universal health care isn't very useful. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-expenditure?xScale=log&endpointsOnly=1&time=1995..2014&country=USA~ITA …

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        2. Chris Selley‏Verified account @cselley 6 Sep 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          We know the money the US spends on healthcare isn’t particularly well spent

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        3. Jalebi Twist‏ @JalebiTwist 7 Sep 2020
          Replying to @cselley @HeerJeet

          Italy’s average age is also 47, while America’s is 37. They also are not particularly well governed.

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