The US has 5 times the population of Italy. Go back and read the stats I copied and pasted from the URL you linked to, and try to explain to me how Italy has more people "over the age of 65" and/or "over the age of 80" than the US, because that doesn't appear to be the case.

Yeah, I don't know which numbers are accurate either. I'm just going off the data tables in the link he provided. I did a double take when I saw 123 million listed under "65 and older", because another page on the same site has this data from 2020:

Number of people 65 years old and older.
1) China 167.69 million
2) India 85.21 million
3) United States 55.94 million
4) Japan 35.88 million
5) Russia 20.73 million
6) Brazil 20.14 million
7) Germany 18.9 million
Indonesia 17 million
9) Italy 14.02 million
10) France 13.54 million
11) United Kingdom 12.39 million

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/People/Age-distribution/Population-aged-65-or-over/Total

It's possible the data in the nicely formed "comparison" table is messed up.

You said comparing Italy to the US was like comparing "apples to oranges" and cited "Italy has a much older population" that the US.

I asked you why the "average age" percent mattered, because when it comes down to it, the US has both a larger population and a larger ACTUAL number of people older than 65.

All of that with fewer beds and fewer physicians.

(Based on the link you posted, if you have another link with better data, please post it).

The way I see it, given the same exponential growth of the virus, we're statistically worse off than Italy.