The Economist A special edition on the coronavirus pandemic

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From: The Economist this week - Saturday Jul 04, 2020 12:07 pm
   
July 4th 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 argues that Joe Biden’s instinctive caution makes real change possible for America. Our election model gives Donald Trump a roughly 10% chance of winning a second term. There is a long time until November. Even so, Mr Trump’s difficulties have made a Democratic Senate majority possible. Mr Biden now faces a paradox, which he must not misread. The more he cleaves to the centre, the greater the chances that he might win comfortably enough to get something done.

Six months since the World Health Organisation learned of a new disease spreading in Wuhan, we take stock. An editorial explains how the virus is raging around the world. A briefing focuses on how governments are struggling to provide enough testing capacity and to change people’s behaviour. We look at the prospects for an early vaccine coming out of Oxford. Our data team examines how the disease spreads within countries. The Lexington column is about Texas, where the Republican governor is balancing epidemiology and the instincts of his party’s base. And we report on how covid-19 has upended Nordic stereotypes.

 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. We have just released a film on covid-19 and the global economy. It’s a Q&A in which I and my deputy, Edward Carr, set out to answer your questions.

It’s odd how people’s tendency to be alarmed by new things is matched by their habit of getting used to old ones—even the most harrowing. As the pandemic speeds up and we get on with our lives, I’m not sure if that is a blessing or a curse. 		 
 
  Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief  
     
 
  Editor’s picks  
 
  Must-reads from our recent coverage  
 
 
 
The pandemic
The way we live now

Covid-19 is yet to do its worst
Leaders
 
 
 
The next stage
The new normal

Covid-19 is here to stay. The word will struggle to keep it at bay
International
 
 
 
Producing a vaccine
Moonshot

Oxford University has taken the lead in the race to produce a covid-19 vaccine
Britain
 
 
 
Thinking fast and slow
How speedy lockdowns save lives

Early stay-at-home orders contained covid-19 the best
Graphic detail
 
 
 
Lexington
It’s messing with Texas

Greg Abbott is battling the coronavirus with one hand and his party’s lunatic fringe with the other
United States
 
 
 
Covid-19 and the Nordics
Borderline personalities

The pandemic casts Sweden and Denmark against type
Europe
 
 
 
Covid-19 Q&A
What will happen to the global economy?

Our editor-in-chief and our deputy editor answer your questions
Economist Films
 
 
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