As recently as the beginning of June the US and Canada had the same death rate.

While the US is unfortunately getting back to the rate from back then, Canada achieved a 20-fold reduction of the death rate at the same time.https://t.co/wU7x3bOYk7 pic.twitter.com/NBgKvcmDRw

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 25, 2020

The key difference being Canada fixed their initial failure. The U.S. federal response has yet to show evidence of learning anything at all.

— Stephen Boisvert (@srboisvert) July 25, 2020