[oregontim]

Of course we can do way better. We all agree there's a lot more of this to come, so I hope those in charge will take the miserable results in the US so far as inspiration for doing better from now on. If others can do better, then so can we, if we have national resolve. Let's put USA in context.



The data in the first image here comes from a statnews article OldAlum posted two days ago (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/fast...19-deaths/). Notice the "stringency index" and how our low number on that score correlates with a high number of deaths.







And the second image here comes from Johns Hopkins data and was posted by @ValaAfshar on Twitter:

[oregontim]

Of course we can do way better. We all agree there's a lot more of this to come, so I hope those in charge will take the miserable results in the US so far as inspiration for doing better from now on. If others can do better, then so can we, if we have national resolve. Let's put USA in context.



The data in the first image here comes from a statnews article OldAlum posted two days ago (https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/fast...19-deaths/). Notice the "stringency index" and how our low number on that score correlates with a high number of deaths.







And the second image here comes from Johns Hopkins data and was posted by @ValaAfshar on Twitter: