![]() Friends and family mourn the death of Conrad Coleman Jr. At every level-from elected officials responsible for the lives of millions to parents responsible for the lives of one or two children-Americans will continue to have to make nearly impossible decisions, despite the fact that after months of watching their country fail, many are now profoundly distrustful, uneasy and confused. There is nothing auspicious about watching the summer turn to autumn all the new season brings are more hard choices. Vietnam, where officials implemented particularly intense lockdown measures, didn’t record a single virus-related death until July 31. Some countries, like New Zealand, have even come close to eradicating COVID-19 entirely. has the seventh-highest number of deaths per 100,000 population the other nine countries in the top 10 have an average per capita GDP of $10,195, compared to $65,281 for the U.S. has an outbreak that continues to spin out of control. daily cases doubled, before they started to fall in late summer.Īmong the world’s wealthy nations, only the U.S. By emerging slowly from lockdowns, limiting domestic and foreign travel, and allowing its government response to be largely guided by scientists, Italy has kept COVID-19 almost entirely at bay. Italy, for example, had a similar per capita case rate as the U.S. Indeed, many other countries in similar situations were able to face this challenge where the U.S. could have avoided many thousands of more deaths this summer. The tragedy is that if science and common sense solutions were united in a national, coordinated response, the U.S. If, in midsummer, the country had doubled down on the measures (masks, social-distancing rules, restricted indoor activities and public gatherings) that seemed to be working, instead of prematurely declaring victory, things might have turned out differently. had mobilized its ample resources and expertise in a coherent national effort to prepare for the virus, things might have turned out differently. But against most wealthier, western European countries, with good healthcare systems, Britain did relatively poorly.īelgium (8.3%), Austria (8.2%), the Netherlands (8.1%), Portugal (7.6%), Ireland (6.2%), France (6.1%), Sweden (4.9%), Germany (4.1%), Finland (3.9%) and Denmark (1.3%) all recorded lower percentage increases in excess deaths than the UK.If, early in the spring, the U.S. ![]() That compared with 26.5% in Bulgaria, 21.2% in Slovakia, 17.2% in Poland, 12.3% in Italy, 12.2% in Hungary, 10.6% in Greece, 10% in Spain and 15.9% in the US. It also had a lower increase in excess deaths than the US.Īccording to WHO data and Our World in Data, the cumulative number of deaths from all causes recorded in the UK over that same January 2020-April 2022 period was 9.2% higher than the projected total based on past averages. Graph showing excess mortality: cumulative deaths from all causes compared with projection based on previous years, for various countriesīy this measure, cited at the inquiry by Johnson and Keith, Britain again fared better than most central and eastern European EU member states, but also outperformed Italy, Spain and Greece. Instead, attention has turned to excess mortality: in essence, the number of deaths for any reason that were recorded during the pandemic, compared with the number of deaths that would normally have been expected to occur based on previous years. ![]() Many experts have since said that owing to the multiple different ways that countries defined and recorded deaths “due to Covid”, as well as challenges in correctly attributing the cause of death, fatalities per million may not be the most useful yardstick. However, confirmed Covid-19 deaths per million in the UK were higher than the EU average of 2,401.4, and higher than every western and southern European member state, including Greece (2,762,2) and Italy (2,751.9).įrance recorded 2,245.5 confirmed Covid deaths per million, Spain 2,211.5, Portugal 2,151.4, Sweden 1,781.3, Germany 1,678.3, Ireland 1,451.5, the Netherlands 1,264.5 and Denmark and Finland, the best performers, 1,030.2 and 824.6 respectively. ![]() It was also lower than the US, which recorded 2,916.3 deaths per million. That was lower than most central and eastern EU member states, from Bulgaria (5,423.5), Hungary (4,619.9) and Croatia (3,913.3), which fared worst, to Poland (2,909), Lithuania (3,293.4) and Romania (3,327.3), which did better. ![]() Graph showing cumulative confirmed Covid-19 deaths per million people in various countries ![]()
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