Okay but let's talk total numbers. The USA has a population of 328.2 million people and have tested 33.601 million (from the CDC) ~10% of our population. There are 741.4 million people living in Europe, and 37.984 million tests have been conducted, ~5%. The USA has 2.581 million cases, Europe has 2.626 million. Now Which is scarier, the fact we have tested more and have less cases, or the fact that Europeans are sitting on their high horse thinking they are doing better than us?
I think it's not good to talk about "Europe" and "US" in this concern.
Before coming to the testing, we have to ask which countries are counted if we're talking about "Europe". Considering the 27 states in the EU, for example, there are 513.4 million people, not 741, which is a significant difference already, so statistics can be falsified easily, depending on who is reporting.
I don't know about the tests in the single states of the US, so I can only refer to my country:
Germany is conducting 350k tests per week (from CW12, before it was 100k) with an inhabitant count of 82 Million. The peak for positive testing was CW14 with 9% and since then it constantly decreased to now around 1-1.3%.
Even within Germany, which is a federal union of 16 states with partially own laws and regulations, there is not a single state acting like the other. The big picture doesn't help in this case, I think.
Before coming to the testing, we have to ask which countries are counted if we're talking about "Europe". Considering the 27 states in the EU, for example, there are 513.4 million people, not 741, which is a significant difference already, so statistics can be falsified easily, depending on who is reporting.
I don't know about the tests in the single states of the US, so I can only refer to my country:
Germany is conducting 350k tests per week (from CW12, before it was 100k) with an inhabitant count of 82 Million. The peak for positive testing was CW14 with 9% and since then it constantly decreased to now around 1-1.3%.
Even within Germany, which is a federal union of 16 states with partially own laws and regulations, there is not a single state acting like the other. The big picture doesn't help in this case, I think.