Losing income due to the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic 2020

As of May 31, a slightly higher share respondents in the United States had lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic than in Germany and the United Kingdom. Coronavirus and economic stability in the U.S.Ever since the turn of the year 2020, COVID-19 has led to serious consequences around the world. The pandemic has caused over 200,000 deaths worldwide, and as of May 2020 no other country is as badly affected by the coronavirus outbreak as United States. The country has reported close to 70,000 deaths as of May 4th, 2020, and the number is growing with every day passing. Several states in the United States have issued stay-at-home orders to their citizens which means that millions of people are unable to go to work. More than 12 million unemployment insurance claims were made in the U.S. in April 2020, as the unemployment figures were soaring. As a result, the U.S. respondents are not only quite worried about their country’s economic stability, but at the same time, they are stressed about their personal finances.

截至五月三十一日，相较于德国和英国，美国因COVID-19疫情而遭受收入损失的比例略高。自2020年年初以来，新冠病毒在全球范围内引发了严重的后果。这场大流行已导致全球超过二十万人的死亡，截至2020年五月，没有任何一个国家比美国更严重地受到冠状病毒疫情的影响。截至2020年5月4日，美国已有近七万人死亡，并且这一数字随着每一天的推移而不断增加。美国数个州向其公民发布了居家隔离令，这意味着数百万民众无法外出工作。2020年四月，美国有超过一千二百万人提出了失业保险索赔，失业率急剧上升。因此，美国的受访者不仅对其国家的经济稳定感到极度担忧，同时，他们也对个人财务状况感到压力重重。