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Bloomberg recently published its latest COVID Resilience Ranking, jumping to a hilariously irrational conclusion that the US outcompetes all other countries and ranks No.1.
The ranking immediately raised the question whether it was done to rank the US, a country with the most infections and deaths, No 1. Is there anything more ridiculous? Now the US is the global role model for pandemic control, while China only ranks eighth, despite its widely recognized achievements in COVID-19 responses.
Global responses to such ranking came as no surprise – the Bloomberg ranking is now the laughing stock of the world.
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The pandemic has infected more than 100 million people and taken away millions of lives globally. Life and health should've come first in any metric that measures a country's response to this once-in-a-century pandemic. Despite being a leading power with the world's most advanced medical technologies, the US has reported more than 35 million infections with fatalities exceeding 620,000, or 20% of the global total, though having only 5% of the world's population.
Then how did the US come on top of the ranking?
As Bloomberg released the ranking, the Delta variant was spreading rapidly in the US, causing a record single-day number of confirmed cases since mid-May. As of the week of July 18, the US had an average 32,300 daily confirmed cases and 258 daily deaths. In the July 18 week alone, confirmed cases increased by 70%, hospitalization increased by 36%, and deaths increased by 26%, overwhelming American hospitals nationwide – the US is obviously in a much worse situation than many countries.
Here comes the question again, how has the US topped the Bloomberg COVID Resilience Ranking?
Now let's take a look at economy. US economy has plunged into deep recession since the pandemic started. In 2020, unlike China, the US economy showed negative growth. Singapore'sLianhe Zaobaopreviously reported that despite the current decline of unemployment rate in the US, its labor market has lost 7.6 million jobs compared to the days before the pandemic. The US Market Observer reported on July 20 that although US economic recession caused by the epidemic has ended for more than a year, it's far from coming out of the quagmire. There still are 9.3 million Americans registered as unemployed, and about 4 million Americans have been unemployed for 27 weeks. Experts warn of a bumpy road towards recovery, and the recession is far from over.
Given such poor performance, how did the US come on top of the ranking?
Access to medical supplies and vaccines are very important to the global fight against COVID-19. As the leading power of the planet with the most advanced technologies, the US should assume its responsibilities and act like a leading power. Let's not forget how the US has intercepted medical supplies from other countries in the early days, which is truly unscrupulous! Today, the country has hoarded vaccine doses far exceeding its population. According to a recent report from The Washington Post, the US is hoarding a large number of surplus vaccines. Millions of these doses are about to expire and will eventually be thrown away like garbage. Since the start of vaccination in December 2020, Georgia alone has destroyed 110,000 doses of unused vaccines.
Today, when the United Nations continues to call for fair global distribution of vaccines, the selfish act of the US completely ignores the threats faced by developing countries and deprives them of access to vaccines. The Bloomberg conclusion of "rapid and extensive vaccine program in the United States" is likely based on the selfish hoarding of vaccines in the US.
Here again comes the question – how did the US top the ranking?
Founder and president of The Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche drew a vivid analogy, "this Bloomberg ranking is akin to a schoolyard bully who takes all the lunch bags from the other pupils and gorges them all up, and then accuse the other pupils of being skinny".

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