Canada’s COVID-19 case rate now tops U.S. rate. Here’s what the experts say – CBC

Situation in Canada concerning, but experts say context critical when comparing countries

Apr 12, 2021

The staggering COVID-19 case numbers in the United States may have seemed like a world away compared to Canada’s relative caseload for most of the pandemic, but recent statistics show the growing severity of the situation on this side of the border.

Friday, April 9 marked the first day since the early days of the pandemic in March 2020 that Canada averaged more confirmed cases per million people than the U.S.

The running graphic from Our World in Data — which uses statistics from Johns Hopkins University to juxtapose the seven-day average number of cases in both countries — showed that trend continuing on Saturday.

Experts say differences in the countries’ vaccine rollouts and the presence of more transmissible variants in Canada contributed to this situation, but context is critical when comparing what’s happening in both countries.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-us-covid19-cases-per-million-1.5983507