This is not intended to be a political question; however, I am prepared for political answers.

Yesterday’s record in number of new cases is alarming. In order to put the number in perspective I googled “daily new covid cases in US versus other western countries” just to confirm that the problem is isolated to the US. The first hit on Google was:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

That website has a graph showing many countries on one graph. I made a few changes t the chart to make it clearer.

First thing I did was to check the box marked “per million people”. Secondly I selected a Linear chart instead of log. Thirdly I narrowed down the list of countries to include only the following: US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia. It is easy to add more countries for comparison.

My observations:

1. The US spike is mirrored in many (not all) European countries.
2. The shapes of the curves indicate that some European countries are experiencing a worse problem than the US – France, UK, Spain, Italy.
3. Even Germany seems to be experiencing a significant increase. In fact, its curve seems to be going up faster than that of the US.

That brings me to my question: What can we do to halt the growth in cases before we hit the dire situation of not being able to treat serious cases?

Please avoid solutions that you know have been tried in the other countries.