COVID Compared in Canada and USA

Bernd Debusmann Jr  reporting for BBC News, asks the question of why is Canada's Covid death rate so much lower than the US?

 

The BBC article has a number of graphic presentations comparing case rates, reported COVID deaths and ICU patients over the past year.

Canadian public health experts and many government officials believe that the more gradual relaxation of these rules - which are dependent on improvements in public heath data - has allowed it to avoid the same the high levels of infections and deaths that have been experienced in the US, where numbers spiked in a number of locations that rushed to ease regulations.1

The categories of data reported by the BBC, especially numbers of ICU patients and deaths, are trends that public health must monitor to modulate our relaxation of COVID restrictions as we move to living with COVID using an abundance of caution.

Watching with abundance of caution

 

 

References

1(2022, February 14). Why is Canada's Covid death rate so much lower than US? - BBC. Retrieved February 16, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60380317