How Is Canada Doing It?

Lessons from our neighbors to the north

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
5 min readJul 28, 2020

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The number of positive Covid-19 cases in the United States has surpassed a grim 4.3 million. The death count is at 148,450. Across the northern border, Canada’s numbers tell a different story: Its case count stands at 114,597, with 8,901 deaths.

Even after accounting for the fact that Canada’s population is about 8.7 times smaller…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.