EU has a bigger problem than the U.S. ...

[aggiesal]

Not trying to diminish the Coronavirus issues here in the US, we have an IDIOT for a president and this is our biggest issue,
but the EU has a much bigger problem than we do.
Population of the US in 2018 was 327.2 million with 135,499 cases reported
Population of the EU in 2018 was 512.4 million with 238,797 cases reported

EU is 1.566 times in population over the U.S. (327.2M x 1.566 is approximately 512.4M)
Yet that have 1.76265 times the number of cases over the U.S. (135,499 x 1.76265 is approximately 238,797)

Here are the 26 member nations of the EU with their cases reported as of 3/29/2020 @ 10:30 AM PST
Austria - 8,672
Belgium - 10,836
Bulgaria - 346
Croatia - 713
Cyprus - 214
Czechia - 2,743
Denmark - 2,564
Estonia - 679
Finland - 1,240
France - 39,105
Germany - 60,659
Greece - 1,156
Hungary - 408
Ireland - 2,615
Latvia - 347
Lithuania - 437
Luxembourg - 1,950
Malta - 151
Netherlands - 10,926
Poland - 1,771
Portugal - 5,962
Romania - 1,760
Slovakia - 314
Slovenia- 730
Spain - 78,799
Sweden - 3,700

Total 238,797 cases

[mr_lebowski]

1. How much better is their testing system?

We'd need the #'s tested, along with the timeline ... to positively determine if they truly 'have it worse'.

Actually we'd also need to define 'having it worse' in the first place.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. No point in cheering about the score until the game is done.

We're only in the first quarter. Too early for a victory dance.

And, it's not a game.

[aggiesal]

6. I'm not treating this as a game ...

I just want people to be aware of their travels.
Europe is in much worse condition than the US.

While our curve continues to go upward, a few of the EU nations
have appeared to plateau and are now coming down, most are
oscillating or still going up.

[LisaL]

18. Try to see if you can tested in US and then let us know what you think of our numbers.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Think about it.... we have the 1% of the worlds

population that thinks Rump is a messiah of sorts.... it’s no contest ... everything is worse here.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Where is Italy? n/t

[aggiesal]

12. At 11.03% death rate. It is really bad there! n/t

[aggiesal]

14. I'm sorry, it looks like I skipped Italy, but their numbers were included ...

Italy - 97,689

[Doodley]

5. Look at the figures again in a week and then in another week and see where we are.

[aggiesal]

9. So I've been plotting out delta's in days, week & By Week in an excel spreadsheet

Week of 2/26 - 3/4, US had an increase of 114
Week of 3/4 - 3/11, US had an increase of 1,324
Week of 3/11 - 3/18, US had an increase of 10,517
Week of 3/18 - 3/25, US had an increase of 58,100
Week of 3/25 - 4/1, only up to 3/27, US has an increase of 25,900 (In 2 days) Extrapolating out to 7 days would be around 90,650 in a week.

[Doodley]

15. Sounds about right, sadly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. The numbers depend on the testing, and the EU countries are ahead of us on that.

We don't know the real numbers in the US because testing has been so haphazard. Chances are the real numbers are much worse than we know. We'll find out when and if our testing catches up.

[aggiesal]

10. Completely agree ...

Pendejo45 did this to keep the numbers down in the hopes of this helping is re-election campaign,
yet it will probably hurt him like no other issue.

45 is and IDIOT!!!

[RockRaven]

8. Comparisons to the US are pointless when we aren't testing properly...

and the pattern of our improperness does not match the improperness of anyone else's inadequate testing. It is guaranteed to be apples and oranges.

[aggiesal]

11. I agree, but numbers are numbers ...

and we can only go by what is recorded.

It could be a lot worse in the US if everyone were to get tested.

From the beginning, I felt like everyone should be tested to figure what exactly are we dealing with, then attack the virus with everything we have. But if we did that, Pendejo45 thought he would look bad, so he suppressed the numbers.

Again, 45 is an IDIOT!!!

[LisaL]

17. Numbers are numbers, but if you make statements like you made in the OP, numbers

better be correct. And we know for a fact that our numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. I think they test more

[LisaL]

16. Our official numbers are the tip of the iceberg.

Considering how many people still can't get tested.

[GeorgeGist]

19. Hold my beer ...

We're about 7-10 days behind.