What is the cost of a life as an economic coma takes hold?
The pressure to "reopen" the economy is real, but at what price? What is the cost of keeping the economy in an induced coma, versus waking it up prematurely?
The pressure to "reopen" the economy is real, but at what price?
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What is the cost of keeping the economy in an induced coma, versus waking it up prematurely? We explore a macabre economic model that puts a price on hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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