A masked Donald Trump, recovering from Covid-19, waves at supporters from his presidential motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center on October 4. | Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s failure on Covid-19 is still among the worst in the world.

Europe suffered a big Covid-19 outbreak in the spring, then subsequently suppressed the virus while the United States continued to struggle. But now cases in Europe are surging once again: France is bringing back a lockdown, the UK is escalating restrictions, and even Germany, widely seen as a coronavirus success story, is again imposing closures, trying to avoid the overwhelming wave of cases that its neighbors are now dealing with.

President Donald Trump has cited Europe’s spike to argue his administration’s handling of Covid-19 wasn’t so bad. “It’s a worldwide pandemic,” Trump said at the final presidential debate. “It’s all over the world.