The GOP’s COVID-19 strategy did not work (but neither did the Democrats’)

By Kent R. Kroeger (March 31, 2021)

A nurse at the San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy (Photo by Alberto Giuliani; used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)

In a previous article I argued it is dangerous making simplistic partisan assumptions about which U.S. states were effective in combating COVID-19 and which ones were not. This is particularly true when the impact of COVID-19 on a state’s economy is also considered.