Thanks to mass vaccination and the gradual reopening of the country, the United States sees the unemployment rate drop by 6% and 900,000 jobs are created in just one month.

Nicolas Barré takes stock of a current economic issue.

This is nicknamed the "vaccine boom".

In the United States, employment is picking up very strongly and the effects of the Covid crisis will soon be erased.

The Wall Street Journal, the business bible, notes in an editorial that on the same day a record number of job openings and the end of travel restrictions were announced for all vaccinated Americans.

The more the vaccination campaign progresses, the more Americans return to normal life and the economy recovers.

The scars of the crisis are disappearing.

In one month in March, the US economy created more than 900,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 6%.

In fact, the return to normal is accelerating.

It goes very quickly, yes.

Nicolas Barré invites those who are interested to take a look at the site of the University of Maryland, which has developed a "social distancing index" by compiling personal data provided by Google and by mobile phones.

We realize that we have returned to practically the same behaviors as before the pandemic, people move around, cross paths, in short, the economy has literally started moving again as before.

Basically, the best plan to support the economy is the vaccine.

This is exactly what opponents of Joe Biden say who think that in fact there is no point in pumping hundreds of billions of public money into the economy.

You will see, it will be THE political debate for the next few months between those who will say: let the economy do the trick, look, you see, it starts all over again as soon as we reopen everything.

And the employment figures partially prove them right.

And opposite the Democrats who will want to spend even more public money, which also means increasing taxes on companies.

If the US economy continues to accelerate, paradoxically, it will not do Joe Biden's business.

He will find it hard to justify spending so much public money when unemployment will soon drop to its pre-crisis level.

He may find himself in political difficulty when the economy is much better.

The story is ironic ...