At an event in Oshkosh, Wis., President Donald Trump said the country was "doing great" in the fight against the coronavirus.
"We're coming back and our numbers are better than almost all countries," Trump said Aug. 17.
When we asked the White House about the claim, the press office noted that by one measure, the United States is doing well.
Looking at the percentage of confirmed cases that lead to death, the United States has a rate that’s about half that in Europe and the rest of the world. 
But the source the White House cites, Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, says that "During an outbreak of a pandemic the case fatality rate is a poor measure of the mortality risk of the disease." 
There are other ways to track the suffering and reach of the coronavirus and by those, the United States is not doing well.
Measured against the size of the population, the United States has the 10th-highest death rate in the world. It’s doing better than the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Chile, but worse than France, Canada and Germany, to pick a few examples.
Factoring in population size, the United States has one of the highest rates globally of people who have tested positive — 16,430 per million residents, which is lower than Chile, but higher than any other large country. Put another way, the virus is known to have infected a higher fraction of the population in the U.S. than in many other places.
The United States has indeed "done very well" with regard to COVID-19. By comparing the infection rate and deaths, it is indeed lower than other countries. Is it right to compare the number of infections and the number of deaths?