I LINKED THIS STORY ON ECONOMIC DAMAGE FROM THE CORONAVIRUS EARLIER, but this graphic is worth breaking out, especially since there are some people trying to claim that the U.S. response has been uniquely bad because #OrangeManBad.
The U.S. has done much better than its peer and near-peer nations at limiting economic damage, and it’s done so without maintaining a higher death rate — in fact, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation here between economic damage and death rate.