US has one of the lowest mortality rates for Coronavirus in the world

Peter Wallison:

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Still, the only truly important number in this crisis is the percentage of coronavirus cases that result in death. That number is the only true reflection of how successfully a particular country is dealing with the challenge the virus presents.

According to the Worldometer, a private statistical resource used by Johns Hopkins University, the New York Times and others, as of April 1, the United States had 188,881 cases and 4,066 deaths, for a total fatality rate of 2.15%.

That is the one of the lowest fatality rates among the world’s major developed countries. In the world as a whole, according to Worldometer, by April 1 there had been a total of 884,075 coronavirus cases, resulting in 44,169 fatalities, for a world fatality rate of 4.99%.

This is much higher than the U.S. rate, but the fairest test of the success of the Trump administration would be to compare the U.S. fatality rate to that of other developed counties on the same date. Here is the comparison:

• China: 81,554 cases, 3,312 fatalities, for a rate of 4.06%
• Italy: 105,792 cases, 12,428 fatalities, for a rate of 11.7%.
• Germany: 74,508 cases, 821 fatalities, for a rate of 1.1%
• UK: 29,474 cases, 1,789 fatalities, for a rate of 7.95%
• South Korea: 9,887 cases, 165 fatalities, for a rate of 1.67%
• Switzerland: 17,137 cases, 461 fatalities, for a rate of 2.69%

Thus, the U.S. fatality rate ranks among the lowest of any developed country, bettered only by Germany and South Korea, and well ahead of China, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

In addition, the number of “cases” in the United States does not reflect the total number of people who have contracted the coronavirus but remain asymptomatic and have not sought testing. It’s important to note that the U.S. government has consistently asked those without symptoms not to seek testing, because the priority has been to identify people who may need hospitalization.

Thus, the number of coronavirus “cases” in this country is likely to be substantially larger than the number of people who were actually tested and became “cases” in that way. If people who have been exposed to the virus and are asymptomatic had been tested, that would have driven the U.S. percentage of fatalities far lower.
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The Democrats have been making a bad-faith effort to politicize the coronavirus and in doing so they have engaged in the politics of fraud.  There is also some evidence that China has cooked the books on its own fatalities and under-reported them.