Barack Obama: “If you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death…”

“Now, I want to be fair on this. No matter who was president, the pandemic was going to be a terrible crisis. People were going to get sick, people were going to die. But If you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 60% lower than in the United States. Now, over a million people died during the pandemic here in the U.S. so do the math. 60% of a million people is 600,000 people.” (31:35–31:44)

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