  This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the populations and equity
markets of 92 countries. We compare country-by-country equity market dynamics
to cumulative COVID-19 case and death counts and new case trajectories. First,
we examine the multivariate time series of cumulative cases and deaths,
particularly regarding their changing structure over time. We reveal
similarities between the case and death time series, and key dates that the
structure of the time series changed. Next, we classify new case time series,
demonstrate five characteristic classes of trajectories, and quantify
discrepancy between them with respect to the behavior of waves of the disease.
Finally, we show there is no relationship between countries' equity market
performance and their success in managing COVID-19. Each country's equity index
has been unresponsive to the domestic or global state of the pandemic. Instead,
these indices have been highly uniform, with most movement in March.
