Do you have any facts to back that up? Leadership issues aside, the US is clearly the country that is best equipped to deal with a pandemic (see https://www.ghsindex.org/).
Also, leadership issues aside is a big aside. Having the most incompetent and corrupt administration in recent US history helming the response to this, including someone who caused a public health crisis in his own state and a self-serving pharmaceutical industry lackey is about the worst you could ask for.
> "The experts who made this map, and ranked the US in first place, are quick to add caveats to America’s number one status... The US scored well on measures including "biosecurity" and "emergency preparedness," but was near the bottom of the list when it came to "healthcare access... According to the Global Health Security Index ranking, the US comes in 175th out of 195 countries, when it comes to Americans‘ access to healthcare.
- Go to the hospital, get tested, possibly get quarantined, lose work income, possibly get fired, possibly pay large bill if uninsured
- Don't go to the hospital, hope you recover fine
If it splits half-half, that's a lot of people who are going to be going outside and infecting people.