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And the USA in comparison with several European countries which successfully bent the curve. The US also had the advantage of having a later outbreak than all of them. [in our Explorer you can compare with all countries in the world https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=2020-02-26..&casesMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~ITA~NOR~USA~CHE~BEL~NLD~AUT~IRL …]pic.twitter.com/zM1qTWRP6u

And these big differences are not because the US is testing more extensively. The opposite is the case: the positivity rate in the US is higher than in all of these countries. [Source https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=2020-06-12&positiveTestRate=true&dailyFreq=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&country=DEU~ITA~NOR~USA~CHE~BEL~NLD~AUT~IRL …]pic.twitter.com/d54baoZ3qJ

Here is how the death rates compare. Shown is the average over the last week. Because deaths are following cases I’d expect that after the recent divergence in case rates we’ll see divergence in death rates in the weeks ahead. [source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=latest&deathsMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&country=ALB~AUT~BEL~BIH~BGR~HRV~CYP~CZE~DNK~EST~FIN~FRA~DEU~GRC~HUN~IRL~ITA~LVA~LTU~NLD~NOR~POL~PRT~SRB~SVK~SVN~SWE~CHE~GBR~USA …]pic.twitter.com/PVV1PQT1FU