The facts are the following, Europe has done 28 percent worse than the United States in excess mortality

“You have to know what you’re talking about”

https://reason.com/2020/09/09/is-the-u-s-handling-the-covid-19-pandemic-better-than-europe/

The Newshour interviewer then went on to point out that “America’s record is much worse than other countries, 4 percent of the world’s population, a quarter of the confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths.”

(Atlas’ response was scathing) You know what that’s a completely incorrect assessment of what’s happening.

The only really legitimate way to compare countries is, if you really want to get down to it, it’s something that most epidemiologists understand.

And that is something called excess mortality.

And what that means is comparing deaths this year, during the pandemic, compared to your baseline, your country’s baseline.

And the facts are the following, Europe has done 28 percent worse than the United States in excess mortality. No one talks about this.

This is a quantitative appropriate epidemiologic criterion here, excess mortality.

It’s really sort of, again, an example of how a sloppy thinking and really amateurish thinking has somehow come to the fore here.

This is not a political issue. You have to use the facts.

When you read the data you have to know what you’re talking about when you make a statement like that.

#SARSCoV2 #ExcessMortality

Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions.

It is used to measure the mortality impact of a crisis when not all causes of death are known.