Gosh, the science of deaths and death rates is complex. I wonder how the U.S. compares with Mexico?
Is Johns Hopkins a good scientific source?
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
I'm actually glad you brought this up, even though we were only talking about the US, because comparisons can help us understand things if we understand the comparison being made. The chart you showed was observed case mortality. That means that out of the people who were sick with Covid, how many died. As you would expect, a poor country like Mexico (with a GDP per capita of around $8,000US, about 1/8 of the US) has a higher observed mortality rate among people who caught Covid, for obvious reasons: it's a poor country and the medical infrastructure was overwhelmed and unprepared.
But if you go back to the site you got that from and click on the other tab, you'll see deaths per 100,000 people (not just a figure of people who got Covid but the entire population). There, the United States if fourth and Mexico is ninth. But, and this is important as the article I linked to shows, in terms of developed countries the USA is in a class by itself. The countries above and immediately below, such as Brazil, Peru, even Poland and Italy, have per capita GDPs that are fractions of the USA. That was the point: the US is a developed and wealthy country, and among its developed peers it stands out in its failure to reduce the toll of Covid. The failure is due to several factors, of course: as Don points out, some people simply cannot afford medical care. But one also has to put the blame at policies and politicization of Covid, things like refusal to take precautions or get vaccinated.
