The Economist A special edition on the coronavirus pandemic

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From: The Economist this week - Saturday Jun 27, 2020 10:10 am
   
June 27th 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 global catastrophes and how to survive them. Low-probability, high-impact events, such as volcanic eruptions, massive solar ejections and, yes, pandemics like covid-19, are a fact of life. But governments tend to ignore them until they strike. It is an abdication of responsibility and a betrayal of the future.

Our coverage of covid-19 focuses on how to prevent pandemics. You cannot stop viruses from mutating into new diseases, but you can strangle them at birth. We look at how the virus is spreading in America and at Britain’s attempts to leave lockdown. We compare covid-19 to AIDS, our data journalists report on the IMF’s latest grim forecasts for the world economy and, lastly, Johnson, our column on language, gives you some tips on how to coin the next corona buzzword.

 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 the virus 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 exploring how the pandemic has accelerated a shift towards remote working. This could affect not just people’s jobs, but also the shape of cities, gender equality and even how we measure time.

This week Britain has been sweltering under the summer sun. People have been crowding onto beaches and holding impromptu parties. I’d like to think that our covid-19 coverage would be altogether better for your health. 		 
 
  Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief  
     
 
  Editor’s picks  
 
  Must-reads from our recent coverage  
 
 
 
Disease surveillance
Pandemic-proofing the planet

New diseases are inevitable. The ensuing global calamities do not have to be
Science & technology
 
 
 
The course of covid-19 in America
Unhappy medium

Decoding the confusing messages of the coronavirus epidemic
United States
 
 
 
Britain leaves lockdown
Full steam ahead

The government gambles on a grand reopening
Britain
 
 
 
The lessons of HIV/AIDS
Slow poison

How the last great pandemic changed the world
Books & arts
 
 
 
Doom and zoom
The IMF’s grim outlook

High debts and high asset prices worry Washington wonks
Finance & economics
 
 
 
Johnson
The rules of coronaspeak

How to coin a new word that has a chance of catching on
Books & arts
 
 
 
Data on the pandemic
Tracking excess deaths across countries

Official death tolls still undercount the true number of fatalities
Graphic detail
 
 
  From Economist Films  
 
 
 
Covid-19
Is working from home really the new normal?

The pandemic has accelerated a shift towards remote working. This could affect not just people’s working lives, but the shape of cities, gender equality and even how we measure time
 
 
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