It easy, because we have a ton of data, and it makes looking at that data much easier. But, the US is not the entire world. We have states just like everyone else does. Sao Tome... I never heard of that country. How are they handling it. I had to go to the factbook to dig up info on it.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tp.html
They have 7 deaths of 211,000 people, why, is it testing, is it technology, is it that their government is not reporting?
1 in 30,000 people have died to covid-19. Its that good, bad, I don't know.