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Mapping America’s reaction to the coronavirus pandemic in other countries has not been an undeniable task, especially given the thickly obscured smoke emanating from the Trump White House, but a new investigation leads to an inescapable conclusion.
To what extent has the United States done worse than other countries in the fight against COVID-19 and the coverage of its economies?Well, much worse. Incredibly worse.
The research comes from Harry J. Holzer, professor of public policy at Georgetown University and researcher at the Brookings Institution, who published his report wednesday and an earlier edition in June.
It’s like the virus is completely out of our control. We did a bad job. It’s so simple.
Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown public policy expert
These are Holzer’s results: “The employment and fitness outcomes in the United States of the pandemic were worse than in almost every high-income country in the world. “
If the United States were to just match the adjustments in the average unemployment rate among the wealthiest members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or the OECD, “at least 8. 6 million more Americans would be hired today. “A record for COVID – 19 deaths consistent with a capita would have stored 112540 American lives.
About 13. 6 million Americans were unemployed in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 190,000 other people have died in the United States as a result of COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
Holzer delves too deeper into the underlying points of this unfortunate record. However, “other countries have made much more use of wage subsidies that keep staff connected to their jobs. “
Among other factors, other countries have taken steps to ensure that staff are fired rather than unemployed, by directly subsidizing wages to keep staff in touch with their employers and reduce the threat of permanent dismissal.
“Every month, we see that the fraction of permanent layoffs in America is increasing,” Holzer told me. In May, the University of Chicago predicted that up to 42%, or 11. 6 million, of all tasks lost through April 25 due to the pandemic would be permanent.
In the United States, Congress and the White House legalized the expiration of the payroll coverage program, which filed commercial loans that could be canceled if they maintained their jobs. The programme, Holzer notes, is not as widely exploited as employment coverage schemes in other countries. Countries. Federal unemployment gains $600 advantages consistent with the week it also expired in late July.
As a result, Holzer writes, “unemployment has a much more serious fear in America than last spring. “
The economic trend line is inseparable from America’s poor functionality in the fight against the virus. “We waited too long and when, despite everything, we acted, we didn’t do enough to speed up testing and tracking,” Holzer says. then Trump began pushing states to remove the [locks] limit too early in May, and the number of cases began to increase in June. “
The harvest is that “the virus has now added to misfortune”.
Holzer notes that the increase in the unemployment rate from January to April was 11 times higher in the United States than the average for other OECD countries and remained five times higher than the average outside the US. But it’s not the first time January to July. The unemployment rate in August narrowed the gap, but left the United States still far from its wealthy cousins.
It is not that cases of capita viruses in the United States are more than 4 times higher than the OECD average and consistent with deaths twice as high.
The total number of cases consistent with the capita is more consistent with that of the United States than in any other OECD country, Holzer writes, and the total number of deaths consistent with the capita is more consistent with that of all four countries. These countries are Sweden, which has a policy of intentionally consistent with allowing the virus to spread in an unsuccessful search for “collective immunity”; Belgium; Great Britain; Italy.
New deaths consistent with cápita, explained as the average of the last seven days, are more consistent with the United States than in any country other than Israel.
“It is possible that different policies have advanced the effects in any of the dimensions,” Holzer told me, referring to economic and aptitude measures. “It’s not like the virus is completely out of our control. We did a bad job. It’s as undeniable as that. “”