All policies being equal, I can see this accurate. What it does not (and realistically cannot) include is the willingness of the population to do anything about the pandemic. Western health systems probably held up better under similar caseloads. Western delivery of vaccines was probably close to the top. Certainly won on vaccine production and logistics and research.<p>The death tolls in the USA and to a lesser extent Canada, the UK, Italy, and Spain were an unwillingness on the part of some of the population to act on the pandemic. They wouldn't social distance. They wouldn't put on masks. They wouldn't stop travelling. And the governments were unwilling or unable to force them to do so.