Canadian news about Covid-19 has generally been pretty positive about the progress being made to contain the virus across Canada.
American news has been obsessed, for good reason, about the outbreaks occurring all over the country.
But you don’t see many reports about Europe. Many countries in Europe had major outbreaks before we even saw very many cases in North America. They have contained the virus far better. Our health “experts” probably could learn a lot from the Europeans, but I’ve never seen any indication that they communicate with them very much. This is doubly true for Asia. Many Asian countries have done a far better job from the beginning than Europe and certainly North America (noted in several earlier blogs). When’s the last time you saw an Asian virologist interviewed on our news?
Here’s the proof in pictures.
U.S.
Canada
Italy and Spain had the worst outbreaks in Europe, but they have brought their cases down much faster than Canada and to a much lower level.
Italy
Spain
If you want to see comparisons with other countries, you can see summary charts for every country in the world here (scroll down a few pages).
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html#countries
