Pandemic Postmortem
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?
Is this why USA feels compelled to blame China?
It’s worth pointing out that the other major Western economies didn’t do very well, either…
Canada: 51,720 Covid deaths, 135.23 deaths per 100,000 population.
UK: 220,721, 325.13.
France: 166,176, 254.68.
Germany: 168,935, 203.16.
Italy: 188,322, 311.47.
Spain: 119,479, 255.54.
Japan: 72,997, 57.72.
You’d think that being fully developed countries, they’d outperform China.
