In my last post, I said that if Covid was progressing as before in the US, then the rise in cases would lead to a rise in deaths with a lag of 2 weeks or so. This would mean that we would see daily deaths in Florida, Texas and Arizona combined double to around 400 before the end of the month.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what has happened.
This means that hoping it will just go away is not effective as a public health or economic strategy.
Applied Macro 