The United States and China’s Different Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and their impact on economic development

Abstract

China and the United States have implemented two models to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, with the United States paying a higher price, especially in terms of the loss of human lives. These two models allow us to assess the way in which China and the United States responded to the crisis and its very different outcomes. The pandemic control models are diametrically opposed: China controls the pandemic and the U.S. vaccinates. That is, China prioritizes social prevention and control, and the United States emphasizes using science and technology to correct social disasters. Partially due to the different responses of the two countries, U.S. economy is probably to outgrow China’s in the short term so it will take longer than expected for China’s economy to overtake America’s in size.