Coronavirus Resource Center According to Johns Hopkins, the United States has the world’s highest Covid death toll at 1,123,836. This works out to a per capita rate of 341.11 per 100,000 population. China is #20 with 101,056 Covid deaths. This works out to a per capita rate of 7.16 per 100,000 population. America’s per capita rate is 47.64X higher than China’s. How to explain this? Is it because of USA’s incompetent health policies during the pandemic?