Worldly

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The Worldly team looks at efforts at reopening in East Asia, including Wuhan, China, and argues that the early data suggests this might be premature — that Singapore and Hong Kong are experiencing a rough second wave of coronavirus infections, indicating that social distancing didn’t end the disease but merely put its spread on pause. They then take a look at two countries that were slow to impose restrictions in the first place — Sweden and Japan — where the situations are now looking grim.


References:

The New York Times has a great piece about the reopening of Wuhan.

CNN explains how there might be a second wave of coronavirus cases in Hong Kong.

Alex has a piece for Vox on Sweden’s risky coronavirus strategy.

The New York Times asks if it’s too late for Japan to declare a state of emergency.

Here’s the Guardian article Zack mentioned.

Vox’s explainer on the coronavirus has a lot of important information about the pandemic.


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Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox

Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox

Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), national security reporter, Vox

 

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