A nurse wearing a personal air purifying respirator in a Covid-19 intensive care unit at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles on January 6. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

If the US had Canada’s Covid-19 death rate, 225,000 more Americans would likely be alive today.

Despite Covid-19 surges in Europe, the United States of America’s extraordinary death toll remains among the worst in the developed world.

As of January 9, 2021, nearly 373,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the US, with a death rate of more than 1.1 per 1,000 people, according to Our World in Data.

While there are nations with higher death rates, this still puts the US in the top 20 percent for deaths among the world’s developed countries, with more than twice the death rate of the median developed country.

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