Usa blew past Italy in number of coronavirus cases

[Demovictory9]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[enough]

1. Chart also shows we have far more cases per million people than China. NT

[frazzled]

2. Well, given that Italy has a population of 67.48 million

and the US 327.2 million, it's not surprising.

[JHB]

3. That was always going to happen

We have about five times their population.

And national leadership hasn't exactly been on the ball about limiting spread.

[MisterProton]

4. On a good note, we have far less death from it.

[LisaL]

6. So far.

[Igel]

7. Since it's a historical fact, it's unlikely to change much.

It's not some countries where the future is known but the past is hard to predict.

The death toll for that many cases wasn't so bad. There's some factors to be considered there, lessons to be learned, but I suspect that most of the factors won't be dealt with very well. Nobody's going to have stacks of ventilators and unused ICU beds sitting there; universal health care still has a budget, and if you do invest in the stuff you have to keep investing in the stuff. After 20 years, unused, most won't be useable.

[Quixote1818]

5. Italy just reported a bunch. We are back behind them by 5,000 but we may overtake them

by the end of the day: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Igel]

8. It does pay not to jump the gun.

People seem to be a bit too eager to say how bad it is.

They could use some virtue signaling instead of showing that particular eagerness.

[Demovictory9]

9. Just pointing out a stat...

[Roland99]

10. Their numbers sometimes don't make sense

I keep trying to reconcile with this

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

1point shows more total today but fewer new today