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Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day6 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today, we

have a special edition of the show. 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 new COVID resilience ranking scores the largest 53 economies on their success

at containing the virus with the least amount of social or economic disruption.

I spoke to Bloomberg's Rachel Chang, who worked on the resilience ranking project

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 countries like the US and

the UK top all of those rankings, which clearly have turned out to be wrong. At the same time,

this year, we've seen a lot of quite surprising success stories. We've

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