How Australia saved thousands while COVID killed 1 million Americans

Australia and America dealt with the pandemic differently, one with mateship and common good in mind and the other with distrust. The results tell a story.

Damien Cave

May 18, 2022 – 1.44pm

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If the United States had the same COVID-19 death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved.

For many Americans, imagining what might have been will be painful. But especially now, at the milestone of 1 million deaths in the United States, the nations that did a better job of keeping people alive show what Americans could have done differently and what might still need to change.