They are to some extent. The US has some... unique problems[1] in this area, sure. But general bureaucratic decay is everywhere. France and Germany are seeing the same PPE shortages, the same hospital equipment snafus, and pretty much no one in the world outside the Korean peninsula has figured out how to do enough testing to contain this thing.

Again, it's true that the US has fallen farther (consider the federal coordination of industry in WWII and compare to the disaster today). But no one is doing "well" here.

[1] I despise that I have to euphemize that here on HN, but those seem to be the rules the community enforces.