As of Saturday afternoon, the United States, which makes up just over 4% of the world population, had 26% of the world's 19.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. Global case numbers are tricky given scattershot testing and the quality of reported numbers from other countries, but the virus spread in the United States has been meaningful. Of the over 720,000 global deaths linked to the virus, 22% have occurred in the United States.
There has been some degree of discussion about whether the U.S. death figures have