The Economist A special edition on the coronavirus pandemic

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From: The Economist - Saturday Jul 18, 2020 11:10 am
   
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  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 is about reconciling the daunting rise of China Inc with a global trading system in which trust has collapsed. Tensions have come to a head over Huawei, a telecoms-equipment firm that Britain has banned from its 5G networks under intense American pressure. Other European countries could follow. Far from showing the West’s resolve, the saga reveals the lack of a coherent strategy.

 Our coverage of the pandemic in this issue digs deep into the trade-offs involved in opening schools in both the rich world and developing countries. Too many governments are failing children, with dire and long-lasting consequences. We also report on America’s programme to develop a vaccine at warp speed and analyse the spread of covid-19 in the country’s southern and western states. We look at how the pandemic will affect Chile’s social and economic model. And our parched Johannesburg correspondent shares news of South Africa’s prophylactic ban on booze.

 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 in Checks and Balance, our podcast on American politics, we speak to Robert Redfield, the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

I hope you enjoy our coverage. 		 
 
  Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief  
     
 
  Editor’s picks  
 
  Must-reads from our recent coverage  
 
 
 
A class apart
As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?

The hard-up find it hardest
International
 
 
 
Learn today, earn tomorrow
School closures in poor countries could be devastating

And governments are bungling their response
International
 
 
 
Operation Warp Speed
Donald Trump is hoping for a covid-19 treatment by November

He might get one
United States
 
 
 
Covid deaths v cases
America is in the midst of an extraordinary surge of covid-19

Will the gap between cases and deaths persist?
United States
 
 
 
Gimme shelter
Covid-19 hastens changes to Chile’s market-led economic model

Under the pressure of the health crisis, the country may become more social democratic
Americas
 
 
 
Measuring the poverty pandemic
Covid-19 has throttled South Africa’s economy


A groundbreaking study reveals how many people have been tossed back into penury
Middle East and Africa
 
 
 
Checks and Balance
Could America have a coronavirus vaccine by election day?

Our weekly podcast about democracy in America
Economist Radio
 
 
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