How U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak Compares With Rest of World

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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean

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Novel coronavirus cases in the U.S. continue to soar, surpassing 4.7 million, including more than 155,400 deaths, according to the latest report Tuesday by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. currently has the world's highest number of confirmed cases and deaths. The country's latest seven-day moving average of daily new cases and new deaths are both higher than that reported in at least 10 other countries, including Spain, China, Brazil and other parts of Europe and Asia.

However, on Monday President Donald Trump made several claims about the U.S. rankings on COVID-19 figures, including deaths, stating: "The United States is lowest in numerous categories. We're lower than the world, we're lower than Europe," in an interview with Jonathan Swan for Axios.

"And because we do more tests, we have more cases," Trump added.

When Swan noted: "I'm talking about death as a proportion of population. That's where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany," Trump replied: "You can't do that," claiming deaths should be considered as a proportion of cases.

.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”

Swan: “Why can’t I do that?” pic.twitter.com/MStySfkV39

— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020

Here we look at the total infections, deaths, daily new cases and daily new deaths reported in the U.S., compared with that of other major countries.

Total infections

Source: Johns Hopkins University (as of Tuesday)

  1. U.S.: 4,713,562 confirmed cases (out of 328.2 million total population)
  2. Brazil: 2,750,318 (out of 213.4 million)
  3. India: 1,855,745 (out of 1.3 billion)
  4. Russia: 854,641 (out of 142.3 million)
  5. U.K.: 307,251 (out of 66 million)
  6. Spain: 297,054 (out of 47.2 million)
  7. Italy: 248,229 (out of 62.4 million)
  8. France: 225,198 (out of 68 million)
  9. Germany: 212,111 (out of 80 million)
  10. China: 88,099 (out of 1.4 billion)
  11. South Korea: 14,423 (out of 51.7 million)

Total deaths

Source: Johns Hopkins University (as of Tuesday)

  1. U.S.: 155,471
  2. Brazil: 94,655
  3. U.K.: 46,295
  4. India: 38,938
  5. Italy: 35,166
  6. France: 30,268
  7. Spain: 28,472
  8. Russia: 14,327
  9. Germany: 9,161
  10. China: 4,672
  11. South Korea: 301

7-day moving average of daily new cases

Source: Worldometer (latest figures for Monday)

  1. U.S.: 60,953 new cases
  2. India: 53,261
  3. Brazil: 44,027
  4. Russia: 5,449
  5. Spain: 2,610
  6. France: 1,174
  7. U.K.: 787
  8. Germany: 706
  9. Italy: 274
  10. China: 77
  11. South Korea: 31

7-day moving average of daily new deaths

Source: Worldometer (latest figures for Monday)

  1. U.S.: 1,125 new deaths
  2. Brazil: 1,004
  3. India: 789
  4. Russia: 122
  5. U.K.: 64
  6. France: 12
  7. Italy: 8
  8. Spain: 6
  9. Germany: 4
  10. South Korea: 1
  11. China: 0
Hongdae, Seoul, South Korea, May 2020
People wearing face masks walking along a street in the Hongdae district of Seoul in South Korea, pictured on May 10, 2020. Getty Images

More than 18.3 million people globally have been infected since the virus was first reported in Wuhan, China, including over 4.7 million in the U.S. Over 10.9 million globally have reportedly recovered from infection, while over 694,400 have died, as of Tuesday, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.

The graphics below, provided by Statista, illustrate the spread of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean

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