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Originally Posted by nomadking
The US and the UK have devolved adminstrations with the main powers.
Eg legally not possible to have a UK wide or US wide set of rules or lockdowns.
The number of deaths is directly related to the behaviour of the people. Eg gather in large groups, and a large proportion is going to get infected. If it was purely down to governments, there there would be no differences.
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Not strictly true for the UK.
HMG decided at the outset to treat this as a public health issue, making it a devolved responsibility, but it could have chosen to use powers under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, effectively treating Covid as a national emergency to be managed centrally by Westminster.
(Edit) beaten to it!