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- Per-capita gross domestic product in the United States is about 30 times bigger than in Kerala. Even the poorest U.S. state, Mississippi, still has a per-capita G.D.P. about 15 times bigger than Kerala’s.Kerala had its first confirmed case of Covid-19 on Jan. 30, just nine days after the first confirmed case in the United States. As of today, the coronavirus has killed 94,700 people in the United States.
In Kerala, that number is four.
If only we had some sort of idle work force...They may not have masks or ventilators, but they have people. And so they’ve made them into health census takers. They’ve made them into track-and-trace investigators. Into people who stand in airports taking temperatures. They’ve taken the resource that they have and put it to good use.