“Despite ample warning, the U.S. squandered every possible opportunity to control the coronavirus. And despite its considerable advantages—immense resources, biomedical might, scientific expertise—it floundered. While countries as different as South Korea, Thailand, Iceland, Slovakia, and Australia acted decisively to bend the curve of infections downward, the U.S. achieved merely a plateau in the spring, which changed to an appalling upward slope in the summer. “The U.S. fundamentally failed in ways that were worse than I ever could have imagined,” Julia Marcus, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, told me.”
And
“Compared with the average wealthy nation, America spends nearly twice as much of its national wealth on health care, about a quarter of which is wasted on inefficient care, unnecessary treatments, and administrative chicanery. The U.S. gets little bang for its exorbitant buck. It has the lowest life-expectancy rate of comparable countries, the highest rates of chronic disease, and the fewest doctors per person. This profit-driven system has scant incentive to invest in spare beds, stockpiled supplies, peacetime drills, and layered contingency plans—the essence of pandemic preparedness. America’s hospitals have been pruned and stretched by market forces to run close to full capacity, with little ability to adapt in a crisis.”
Medicynical note: The Soviet Union failed because,in part, of U.S. economic and military policies in the 70s and 80s. The US is failing now because of money driven healthcare non-system and an incompetent administration elected (in part) because of Russian assistance in the last election. Trump has bungled the response to the pandemic.
Medicynic 
And now, with the president’s appointment of DeJoy, an avid advocate and financial supporter, he is attempting to gut the US Postal Service. This would hamstring mail in voting for the upcoming presidential election. He is in a no holds bared fight to retain the White House.
Yup