Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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vivster said:

US is gonna overtake Switzerland in deaths per capita today. Next is Sweden and the Netherlands. They like to defend themselves with the "but we got so many more people" excuse but that doesn't change the fact that they're currently in the top 8 of the worst affected countries by death per capita.

Just to give some perspective here, these are the current standings:

This was the situation on Monday:

And this here one month ago:

See how the US had been climbing up the ranks over time?

You can see how Luxembourg and Iceland were leading far away early on due to more extensive testing, but that the rest of the world is slowly crawling up to them. Iceland in particular is about to get overtaken by Spain and Qatar, the latter also being rising very fast right now.