This study examines the international political impact of COVID-19 and looks into the relationship between hegemonic stability theory and pandemics. Focusing on the sociocultural response to COVID-19, a factor decomposition was carried out on the coronavirus disease 2019-20 infection rates and mortality rates in 44 countries. An international comparison excluding vaccination periods reveals sociocultural tendencies in infection rate and mortality mapping that can be called regimes in health care policy. Several Latin American and Middle Eastern middle-income countries record similarly high rates of mortality. In contrast, Western countries tend to show low mortality but high infection rates. With the notable examples of the United States and Belgium, most Western countries are mapped in this cluster. Several Asian countries are mapped in the cluster of low infection and low mortality rates. While the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) is considered an international public good, regulating people’s behavior is difficult and suppling vaccines in developing countries is likely to encounter difficulties. Vaccination is a supply of public goods, but the supply needs to be carried out by private companies for the construction of a vaccination supply chain. Though they are supporting WHO and encouraging vaccinations, the hegemonic powers are still likely to experience economic stagnation as an outcome of the pandemic
