Author(s)

Zixuan Liu, Yichen Peng

Corresponding Author

Zixuan Liu

ABSTRACT

Owing to the Covid-19’s low fatality rate but extremely high infectiousness and numerous unknown sequels, the government usually has to make a choice in the trade-off between the public health and local economy, embodied by whether they implement strict anti-pandemic policies and regulations. As over 70% of Americans have taken at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, this pandemic should have been at least almost ended as most people thought before. But as a matter of fact, the pandemic seems to be rampant again starting June 2021. This research attempts to find a better method to deal with Covid-19. This study first presents and compares the latest vaccination situation ranging from the whole of America to specifically New York and California using the geographical data with the basemap. Then it tests the Coivd-19 vaccine’s real effect through single-variable and multivariable linear regressions on test positive rate and death rate and finds that the vaccine’s real effect is much more significant than that reported from the clinical experiments. After comparing the pandemic situation between New York City and Los Angeles, this research finds that the difference in the anti-pandemic regulations may lead to the difference in controlling the pandemic. Then this study tests the impact of anti-pandemic policies promulgated by the government by statistical comparisons and finds that they have an immense influence on alleviating the pandemic. Finally, by comparing the economy index of New York from different periods, this study finds that New York City government’s regulations secured public health without hurting the economy. Therefore, this study suggests other governments could take pattern by it to issue similar regulations and continue to promote vaccination.

KEYWORDS

Covid-19, Vaccine, Policy, Trade-off of public health and local economy