Time-series COVID-19 policy outcome analysis of the 50U.S. states

Abstract

Goal of health policies is to protect and promote the health of communities. We examined COVID-19 policy outcomes of the 50 US states according to policymaker assumptions over time. With daily cumulative population mortality chosen as an indicator to evaluate and score outcomes of individual health policies, Hawaii had the best score and Arizona has the worst score. Our policy outcome analysis tool could identify and quantify policymakers’ faulty assumptions against COVID-19, and concludes that the more COVID-19 deaths, the greater the economic loss.

Keywords

• Visualizing COVID-19 policy outcome
• Population mortality rate
• Time-series analysis