Since we're comparing I wanted to go back to this article to compare some more.
Deaths in the U.S.
are 29% higher than even in Sweden, "which ignored everything for so long," Emanuel says. Sweden made a point of refusing to order strict social restrictions and never went in to a full lockdown. "We have 29% more mortality than we should have if we'd followed Sweden's path and Sweden virtually did nothing."
Notice how they say our deaths are 29% higher then Sweden.
But according to this from John Hopkins, the deaths per 100,000 are about the same.
Sweden’s overall death rate — that is, the percent of those infected who die from coronavirus — sits at roughly 5.9%
with roughly 58 deaths per 100,000 residents, compared to America’s death rate of 2.7% with 66 deaths per 100,000 residents, according to
Johns Hopkins University. Swedish deaths per 100,000 people is lower than Italy (60 deaths), Spain (70 deaths) and the U.K. (65 deaths), according to Johns Hopkins.
So as we can see the US deaths per 100,000 are similar to Sweden, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
Here's another way to play with numbers so you can get the results you want.
The rate of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. since June 7 is 27.2 per 100,000 people. In contrast, in Italy, the death rate is down to 3.1 per 100,000.
Comparing 27.2 deaths per 100,000 to 3.1 looks bad, but then you notice it says since June, and we all know Italy was hit very hard early. So we go back up to Johns Hopkins University numbers and see the deaths per 100,000 is US 66, Italy 60, very similar.
Sorry, but whenever I see someone wanting to compare country to country and Covid deaths, I figure there has to be an agenda. Let's show somebody is doing it wrong. And when that someone is NPR, well we all know where they stand especially this year.