The United States of America has over 31 percent of all confirmed cases globally. That percentage is followed by Spain with less than 10 percent of the confirmed cases.
Global confirmed cases: 2,682,225
USA cases: 856,209
The United States of America has more than 13.6 percent of the deaths globally. That percentage
Global deaths: 187,330
USA deaths: 44,485
The United States of America has 24 percent of the deaths from COVID-19 globally.
By Domenico Montanaro and Elena Moore
A month ago, (click here) President Trump went on Fox and downplayed the potential lethality of the novel coronavirus and compared it to the seasonal flu.
"We've had horrible flus," Trump said March 24. "I mean, think of it: we average 36,000 people. Death. Death. I'm not talking about cases, I'm talking about death — 36,000 deaths a year. People die — 36 [thousand] — from the flu. But we've never closed down the country for the flu. So you say to yourself, 'What is this all about?'"
Trump's numbers on the flu have come into question, but even by his own cited numbers, there have now been far more deaths from COVID-19 — in less than two months. As the chart below shows, the curve nationally is hardly flattening by that measure....
