Western Countries Have Shown Poorer Rather Than Better Performance Against COVID-19

Abstract

Abstract Western countries have been subjectively claimed to have performed much better than other countries in combatting COVID-19 because of their alleged democratic governance. Here, I show that the performance of their pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures has in fact been poorer than that in non-Western countries, not because of democratic governance but only because of poor decision-making.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• Epidemiology
• Public health