After some Excel shenanigans I managed to extract the top 20 countries by cases per capita and death rate. (As these aren't desired quantities maybe this should be the bottom 20, but you know what I mean.) This list is for countries with 1,000 cases or more and 100 deaths or more. So this leaves out some countries, mostly in Africa, that only have a handful of cases but disproportionately large death rates.
It's surprising how little we hear of countries outside Europe. (Or maybe I'm not reading the right news outlets.)
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Well, from your list all of the top 10 in terms of cases per million are in Europe, and all of the top 20 except for USA, Israel, and Iran.
Plus I think there's the idea that Europe is ahead of the USA on the Covid-19 curve and that it's a sign of what's in store for the USA if we don't flatten the curve.
Plus of course the US media generally doesn't cover much outside the USA/Europe unless there's some kind of big tragedy somewhere else and it's a slow news week....
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