The Economist A special edition on the coronavirus pandemic

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From: The Economist this week - Saturday Jun 06, 2020 11:10 am
   
June 6th 2020 Read in browser
   
  The Economist this week  
 
  Our coverage of the new coronavirus  
   
 
     
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  Our cover this week looks at police violence and protest in America after George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, was killed by a white police officer. For nearly nine agonising minutes, deaf to Mr Floyd’s pleas and the growing alarm of the crowd, the officer choked the life out of him. More than 350 cities erupted nationwide. The cycle of injustice and protest that descends into riot and conservative reaction has come round many times in recent decades. So many, that it would be easy to conclude that police violence and racial inequality in America are just too hard a problem to fix. Yet, our cover leader argues, such pessimism is unwarranted.

Our coverage of covid-19 begins with a profile of the many ways in which it attacks the human body. Our data journalists ask which governments cope with the disease better, democratic ones, or autocracies. We report on the merciless spread of the virus through the Indian subcontinent—and offer our commentary on the growing threat outside the West. We look at how AstraZeneca, a drugs firm, is searching for a vaccine. And we set out how covid-19 has helped fuel a raging infodemic of misinformation.

Our mortality tracker uses the gap between the total number of people who have died from any cause and the historical average for the time of year to estimate how many deaths from covid-19 the official statistics are failing to pick up.

We have also been focusing on the pandemic in Economist radio and Economist films. This week we released a film about what is really going on in Russia, where Vladimir Putin’s widely disbelieved claim to have covid-19 “totally under control” is doing him grave harm.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, has been circulating for at least six months. Life BC—before covid—seems to belong to a distant past. I hope you find that our coverage sheds some light on the strangeness of life in the new AD—after domestication. 		 
 
  Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief  
     
 
  Editor’s picks  
 
  Must-reads from our recent coverage  
 
 
 
How covid-19 kills
Assault and battery

The ways in which the virus wears the body down
Briefing
 
 
 
Covid-19 and democracy
Out in the open

Transparent governments report and contain epidemics most effectively
Graphic detail
 
 
 
Covid-19 in South Asia
Deadly tide

Infections are rising fast in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
Asia
 
 
 
Covid-19
The other three-quarters

In most of the world the pandemic is still gathering pace
Leaders
 
 
 
Schumpeter
Boffins v the bug

How the quest for a vaccine could restore faith in big pharma
Business
 
 
 
Fake news
Return of the paranoid style

Why conservatives are more likely than liberals to fall prey to misinformation
International
 
 
 
Covid-19 data
Tracking deaths from the novel coronavirus

Data on the pandemic’s deadly trajectory
Graphic detail
 
 
  From Economist Films  
 
 
 
Covid-19
What’s really going on in Russia?

Vladimir Putin claims Russia has covid-19 “under total control”, but whistleblowers say the official figures are fabricated. As well as leading to many more deaths, this could dent Mr Putin’s popularity for years to come
 
 
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