Update On Employment And Virus Outcomes, US vs. Other Rich OECD Countries

Update On Employment And Virus Outcomes, US vs. Other Rich OECD Countries

Yesterday I published a brief for Brookings (see below) that summarizes how the US has performed during the current pandemic, both in terms of virus caseloads/deaths and also unemployment:

BrookingsCOVID outcomes update: Health and employment impacts in the US compared to other countries

The brief is an update of another that I published in early June.

The results are not encouraging. Virus caseloads and deaths in the US overall since January have averaged 19.11 and .57 per thousand Americans, whereas similar numbers for the average other OECD rich country are 4. 11 and .23 per thousand respectively. Even more discouraging, new cases and deaths (in the past 7 days, measured as of September 9) are .08 per thousand and 1.34 per million respectively, while in the other countries they are