This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
As of the end of the day on May 28th (start of May 29th), there had been a global total of 5,900,880 confirmed cases of Covid-19 (or coronavirus-19), and 361,776 total deaths confirmed from that disease. That’s a 6.1% death-rate.
- 1: USA, 1,768,461 / 103,330 / 5.8%
- 2: Brazil, 438,812 / 26,991 / 6.2%
- 3: Russia, 379,051 / 4,142 / 1.1%
- 4: Spain, 284,986 / 37,119 / 13.0%
- 5: UK, 269,127 / 37,837 / 14.1%
- 6: Italy, 231,732 / 33,142 / 14.3%
- 7: France, 186,238 / 28,662 / 15.3%
- 8: Germany, 182,452 / 8,570 / 4.7%
- 9: India, 165,386 / 4,711 / 2.8%
- 10: Turkey, 160,979 / 4,461 / 2.8%
- In order to minimize the economic damage, controlling the epidemic is basic — whatever is sound policy for the public’s health is also sound economic policy.
- The supposed either-or choice (trade-off) that exists between those two objectives does not exist.
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