By any objective measure, the U.S. has not been very successful in addressing the novel coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. population is about 331 million, a tad over 4% of the world’s 7.8 billion souls. By the time you are reading this column it is projected that the U.S. will have over 800,000 cases of COVID-19, which is over 30% of the world’s projected 2.5 million cases, and over 50,000 deaths, which is over 23% of the world’s projected 210,000 deaths.