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by IfIEverCatchYou 2249 days ago
> meanwhile, countries with universal healthcare, welfare, and support structures are breezing through this.

Name me a country with universal healthcare with a lower COVID-19 death rate per capita than the US.

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Canada. Ontario has a per-capita death rate of <2 per 100000. New York State is at 32 (~17x higher) with Ontario having ~75% of the population of New York State. I'm sure this changes when you start looking at urban areas but I suspect the stats hold up pretty well.

[1] USA breakdown https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi... [2] Google summarizes the Wikipedia data for the Canadian rates

are you asking deaths per capita or death rate? i don't know what death rate per capita quantifies.

in either case, that's easy: south korea, germany, denmark.