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Originally Posted by forebubba
The US has 4% of the world's population and 30% of the world's deaths due to covid 19. The US people spend by far the most for health cost. Why is this?
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I can suggest two possible reasons:
1) Mobility - as a %, there are far more people moving around in, and going into and out of, the USA than, say, India or China (each having 18% of the World's population) so the virus came into the US at many entry points and got quickly spread around; and
2) Accuracy of reporting - many deaths in the outlying regions of India and China may have not been recorded as Covid-related, and the reporting may not even have reached the national statistics yet. With 2.8bn people between them, it wouldn't take much of a change in their actual Covid-related death rate to send them rocketing past the US in terms of actual numbers of deaths.