opinion by James M. Branum
The following statistics (as of Dec. 8, 2021) are critical to compare: USA:
- COVID infections: 49,422,567 (14.9% of the population)
- COVID deaths: 788,903 (0.2% of the population)
- Population: 331,449,281
Cuba:
- COVID infections: 963,347 (8.6% of the population)
- COVID deaths: 8,311 (0.07% of the population)
- Population: 11,181,595
To put it in another light, the average US American is 1.7 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 and is 2.9 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the average Cuban.
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