The U.S.’s Stunning Turnaround in the Pandemic

A sign in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Photographer: Logan Cyrus/Bloomberg

Here’s the latest news from the global pandemic.

Since November 2020, Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking has tracked the best and worst places to be in the pandemic every month. Early on, with the coronavirus raging through most parts of the world and the death toll mounting, the economies that topped the ranking consistently were places that had stamped out local transmission through aggressive, isolationist measures, like New Zealand and Singapore.