Miscellaneous
Three states box in Western North Carolina - Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. All three responded to the pandemic much differently than North Carolina did. BPR reports on a study which examined which approach worked better. COVID restrictions - even now almost 15 months later - look very different across Western North Carolina's borders. Sean Mulholland is a professor of Economics at Western Carolina University. He notes that Democratic North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper put more COVID restrictions in place than his Republican counterparts in neighboring states. "It fell to governors across the country to effectively shut down most industries, particularly those that had people interacting with each other in small, confined spaces," said Mulholland. He's also associate director of the Center for Study of Free Enterprise. County-By-County Mulholland studied the impact of these policies on unemployment, as well as hospitalizations and death rates. During a recent town hall, he