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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 310 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.

Today's episode was first aired in November, so we won't be sharing today's virus news.

Now for our main story, everyone is fighting the same coronavirus.

But nearly a year into the pandemic, quality of life and control of the

pathogens spread look vastly different across the world. Bloomberg's COVID resilience ranking

scores the largest 53 economies on their success at containing the virus with the least amount

of social and economic disruption.

Back in November, I spoke to Bloomberg's Rachel Chang, who worked on the Resilience

Ranking Project. I spoke to her about the data and the analysis that went into determining

the best places for weathering the pandemic. The findings on the relative strength of health

care systems around the globe and how they've succeeded or failed to manage the pandemic may surprise

you. I was wondering if you might start off just explaining what this new COVID resilience ranking does and who it's for.

So our idea is to be able to give an accurate view based on data of what's going on in the world right now.

Because what we've seen of COVID-19, it's pretty much the biggest public health crisis

of a generation.

And not only that, everything that we thought we knew about the world and how different

countries would handle a pandemic of this scale has actually been proven wrong.

There were many pandemic preparedness and healthcare adequacy type of rankings before the COVID-19 pandemic, and you had

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