NEW YORK- Americans dying from coronavirus is the highest in the developed world. At the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. mortality rate was lower than many other countries. But towards the end of summer the country failed to embrace public health and policy measures that helped other countries reduce deaths. If the United States had the same mortality rate as the Netherlands after the first week of may, 100,000 fewer Americans would have lost their lives.

America's failure to control the outbreak has taken an emotional toll but also is forecast to be costly economically. When lost output and health setbacks are taken into account, the economic toll of the pandemic is expected to exceed $16 trillion, or about 90% of U.S. annual gross domestic product, according to a separate report in JAMA on Monday.

America leads the world in coronavirus deaths with 214,776, Brazil ranks second with 150,488 as of Monday.

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