I'm near the U.S - Canada border and so get regular updates on what's happening in Canada. They have just over 9,000 deaths with about 12% of the population of the U.S.. What that means is that their death rate is about half that of the U.S. even though they had huge problems early on with deaths in nursing homes. Given the number of new cases a day--Ontario with a population of 14 million has been getting 100 or fewer cases a day for weeks--the gap will widen considerably. What accounts for the difference? It isn't that their population is less urban since the percentage of people who live in cities in Canada is higher than in the U.S. Kushner repeated his claim today that the U.S. has had a "great success" in fighting the virus.