Total cases per 1 million people Australia 1075 USA 26621
Total Deaths per 1 million people Australia 35 USA 694
In Australia, we had a coordinated national response based on science. The situation in Victoria is evidence of what will happen if the situation is miss managed, similar to, but not as bad as the situation in the US.
Trump's mismanagement of this pandemic is based around his re-election. He has denied and down played the seriousness of the virus because he thought it would impact negatively on the economy, jobs and the share market, all of which were central to his re-election.
Had he locked down hard in the early stages, he may well have kept the White House.
His mismanagement of the pandemic will cost him the election.
