Canada and the USA are often compared for their markedly different approaches to health care despite cultural similarities and sharing the world’s longest international boundary. The period between the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020 and the availability of a vaccine in December 2020 offers an ideal opportunity to compare subnational Canadian and American pandemic mortality. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 was through compliance with health orders and best practices; treatment was only available to those admitted to hospitals and whose lives were at risk. Using publicly available data from the Johns Hopkins University 2019 Novel Coronavirus Visual Dashboard, we seek to uncover if there were any similarities in Canadian provinces’ and American states’ monthly COVID-19 mortality per 100,000 people, building on a broader scientific push towards understanding the successes and failures of different health systems in the pandemic. The similar province and state cumulative COVID-19 mortality rate trajectories identified in our analyses do not amount to intuitive comparative jurisdictions which suggests the importance of identifying localized pandemic responses.

尽管文化相似且拥有世界上最长的国际边界，但加拿大和美国经常因其截然不同的医疗保健方法而被拿来比较。从 2020 年 1 月 COVID-19 大流行开始到 2020 年 12 月疫苗问世之间的这段时间提供了一个理想的机会来比较加拿大和美国地方大流行死亡率。通过遵守卫生命令和最佳实践来防止 COVID-19 的传播；治疗只提供给那些被送进医院并且生命有危险的人。使用约翰霍普金斯大学 2019 年新型冠状病毒视觉仪表板的公开数据，我们试图发现加拿大各省和美国各州每 100,000 人的每月 COVID-19 死亡率是否有任何相似之处，在更广泛的科学推动的基础上，了解不同卫生系统在大流行中的成功和失败。在我们的分析中确定的类似省和州累积 COVID-19 死亡率轨迹并不等于直观的比较管辖区，这表明确定本地化大流行反应的重要性。