and elsewhere is likely significantly higher, as the methods for counting deaths differ from state-to-state and the lack of adequate testing capacity means that early deaths during the outbreak may not have been included. Public health experts say the true death toll in the U.S. There are also disparities in how each country is reporting deaths with some nations omitting deaths in nursing homes, while other countries are including “probable COVID-19 deaths.
has reported fewer deaths per capita than Europe as a whole. However, on a per capita basis, the U.S death toll trails that of Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the U.K. In terms of deaths, Italy is the second worst-hit country with 26,644 deaths, according to data gathered by Johns’ Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
The next worst-hit country in terms of infections in Spain, with 226,619 infections.
