![]() ![]() A state’s openness score is lowered for each restriction it enacts, and the score is reduced proportionally to the severity of each restriction enacted. WalletHub’s openness index evaluates America’s 50 states (+DC) on a 100-point weighted scale, with a score of 100 representing zero restrictions related to COVID-19. 2 WalletHub is a personal finance website that is tracking the openness of states as part of its broader reporting on the economy to inform consumers. To examine the openness of individual states over time, we used an index developed by WalletHub. In our analysis, “openness” refers to the absence of restrictions imposed on residents as part of a state’s COVID-19 response. To understand the relationship between lockdowns and COVID-19, we analyzed the correlation between two variables: the openness of states (OoS) and daily deaths per million residents (DDPM) due to COVID-19. While certain states enforced strict lockdowns, other states remained relatively open and imposed few restrictions on their residents.Īfter seven months of the pandemic, we examine states’ varying responses: How varied were states’ responses to COVID-19, and how did these responses change over time? Was there an association between the strictness of lockdowns and lower COVID-19 death rates? Simultaneously, how was the strictness of lockdowns related to unemployment rates? Methodology However, not all states enacted the same policies to contain the disease. In response to the pandemic, all states enacted policies intended to “flatten the curve” and prevent the spread of COVID-19. In states like Montana, Utah, and Wyoming, the average rate was lower than 0.25 daily deaths per million residents. Sixteen states had average daily death rates of fewer than one per million residents. Simultaneously, other parts of the nation were barely affected by COVID-19. New York suffered average daily death rates as high as 1,000 deaths per day (over 50 deaths per million residents). Hospital beds, medical resources, and personal protective equipment (PPE), were in short supply.Īt this point in the pandemic, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were experiencing the highest daily death rates in the country. Portable refrigeration units were used as morgues. ![]() Meanwhile, Urumqi, where the fire occurred, as well as the smaller city of Korla were preparing to reopen markets and other businesses in areas deemed at low risk of virus transmission and to restart bus, train and airline service, state media reported.In April 2020, COVID-19 was on the verge of overwhelming several regions of the United States. Meanwhile, two cities in China’s northwest, where residents have been confined to their homes for up to four months, eased some anti-virus controls Sunday after public protests Friday. The deputy Communist Party secretary of the school arrived at the protest, promising to hold a schoolwide discussion. Students shouted “freedom of speech” and sang the Internationale, the socialist anthem. Three young women stood there initially with a simple message of condolence for the victims of the Urumqi apartment fire, according to a witness, who refused to be named out of fear of retribution, and images of the protest the AP has seen. In Beijing, students at the nation’s top college, Tsinghua University, held a demonstration Sunday afternoon in front of one of the school’s cafeterias. ![]()
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