The Economist A special edition on the coronavirus pandemic

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From: The Economist this week - Saturday Jun 13, 2020 11:09 am
   
June 13th 2020 Read in browser
   
  The Economist this week  
 
  Our coverage of the new coronavirus  
   
 
     
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  Welcome to the newsletter highlighting The Economist’s best writing on the pandemic. Our cover this week looks at the power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd. Mr Floyd was not famous. He was killed on a street corner in America’s 46th-largest city. Yet in death he has suddenly become the keystone of a movement that has seized not just the United States but countries around the world.

 Our coverage of covid-19 this week focuses on the lasting effects of the pandemic on the world’s great cities—where, until now at least, their destiny has been density. We describe the development of a mouse model for the disease and the signs of a second wave of infections in the Middle East. Two of our columnists report on how governments are struggling to manage the pandemic in the United States and India. And we pour a glass or two of cold water on the optimism of investors.

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. In Babbage, our science podcast, Slavea Chankova and Kenneth Cukier investigate the ways in which SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes covid-19, wears the body down.

We have been living with covid-19 for almost six months, but are even now only beginning to understand its effects. I hope you find that our coverage does its small bit to help. 		 
 
  Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief  
     
 
  Editor’s picks  
 
  Must-reads from our recent coverage  
 
 
 
Centres of excellence
The coronavirus challenges New York’s future

Cities around the world, take heed
Briefing
 
 
 
Laboratory mice
An animal model of covid-19 is now available

Another is on its way
Science and technology
 
 
 
An unwanted guest returns
The Middle East is fighting a second wave of the pandemic

Countries that thought they had beaten the coronavirus discover they have not
Middle East and Africa
 
 
 
Lexington
How Pennsylvania’s governor is battling the pandemic

A day on the frontline with Tom Wolf is an unnerving experience
United States
 
 
 
Banyan
India’s bureaucrats are fighting covid-19 with red tape

It is not going very well
Asia
 
 
 
Achilles heal
Most investors and some firms are upbeat about the world economy

They won’t be if stimulus cheques dry up or the virus surges again
Leader
 
 
 
Covid-19 data
Tracking excess deaths across countries

Official death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities
Graphic detail
 
 
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Babbage
Covid-19’s path of destruction—how the virus wears the body down

Our podcast on the science and technology making the news. Also this week: what lasting damage does the coronavirus do to the body and mind?
 
 
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