America Dances (part 2): American Exceptionalism

Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory

By Amy Rogers, MD, PhD

If pandemic control were an Olympic event, the US would lose in the quarterfinals, if it earned the right to compete at all.

As I said in my previous post, the US is experiencing a lot of regional variation with the epidemic. But taken as a whole, our country’s dance is terrible compared to Western Europe and some East…