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Did Hawaii Beat the Virus?

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At great cost, isolation from the world delayed the spread until vaccines and treatments were available.
Through the first 18 months of the pandemic, Hawaii had two-fifths the cases per person and one-fourth the Covid-19 death rate of the country as a whole. My recent study with Phil Kerpen and Stephen Moore ranked the state No. 1 in pandemic health, with Vermont a distant second. But Hawaii also ranked last on the economic score, even after adjusting for the heavy reliance of its economy on tourism. By conventional economic metrics, Hawaii paid a high price for its partial victory over the virus.

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