*PLEASE NOTE: The numbers below are inaccurate; please click here for corrected calculations.
**Even with the corrected numbers, the US still has a shocking 16% of worldwide deaths.
***Thus, the points made in the podcast are still valid, even with the wrong numbers.
The United States is home to a mere 4% of the world's population. We spend more money on healthcare than any other nation. At 16.9% of GDP our healthcare spending is almost double the average of other developed countries.
Our well-funded, world-class healthcare system has administered more COVID-19 vaccines than all other countries except India and China, which have significantly higher populations. As a result, we have more vaccinated people in America, than in any other developed nation.
Given our relatively small percentage of the world's population, the superior amount of money we spend on healthcare, and our easy access to vaccinations, one might expect that the U.S. would have fared fairly well throughout the COVID-19 pandemic -- meaning less people should have died, because we have high sanitation, excellent healthcare facilities, and readily available access to free testing and vaccinations across the country.
So, how did we do? There are only two numbers that really tell the story:
What those numbers tell us is shocking: The United States accounts for more than HALF of all the deaths from COVID-19 in the entire world. --mic drop--
It's flabbergasting. It's mind-boggling. It's frightening. It's unbelievably insane!!!
How can this be? This doesn't make sense! What in the world is going on here?! Could there be some reasonable explanation for this complete and utter failure to protect our people? Could there be some logical justification for this outrageous discrepancy? How do we explain these data, and what do they really mean?
