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Coronavirus Epidemic Tests the World’s Economic Vigor

Coronavirus Epidemic Tests the World’s Economic Vigor
A sign urges visitors to wear face masks at the entrance to an empty shopping mall in Beijing on Feb. 5, 2020. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
Austin Bay
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China’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) continues to take human lives. The Chinese people have suffered the most in terms of total cases and lives lost. The epidemic began in Wuhan, capital of the Hubei province. As I write this column, Hubei has had 60,000 confirmed cases and almost 1,800 deaths.

Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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