The US excess mortality rate from COVID-19 is substantially worse than Europe’s.
By Janine Aron, John Muellbauer
We compare cumulative excess mortality from the last week of February to the penultimate week of July13 and compute the two measures of rates of excess mortality: the per capita measure of excess deaths and the percent of ‘normal’ (i.e. the P-score measure).
https://voxeu.org/article/us-excess-mortality-rate-covid-19-substantially-worse-europe-s