The World Health Organisation was this week full of praise for Chinas approach. That does not, however, mean it is a model for the rest of the world. All quarantines carry a costnot just in lost output, but also in the suffering of those locked away,...
Start with the first, volatility. Equity market instability might feed on itself. 首先是波动性。股市的不稳定可能会自食其果。 The VIX, which measures the expected volatility implied by the price of options on the Samp;P 500 index,...
Leaders 来源于2月29日《社论》版块 The pandemic 流行病 Going global 全球化 The virus is coming. Governments have an enormous amount of work to do 病毒来了。政府有大量的工作要做 In public health, honesty is worth a lot m...
The world this week 本周要闻 politics 政治 Mahathir Mohamad resigned as prime minister of Malaysia, after his own party, Bersatu, decided to leave the ruling coalition. He remains in office as a caretaker. Anwar Ibrahim, his long-time rival and...
Be prepared 做好准备 America is ahead of most countries in planning for such things, says Dr Hanfling. Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina when many patients died in hospitals that were unprepared for disasterlaid bare the need to prepare for the...
When America, the hub of global capital, is this far into an economic expansion and a bull market, 当作为全球资本中心的美国深陷入经济扩张和牛市时， investors feel two conflicting impulses. They hope that the good times will la...
Another was Shaquille O'Neal, a charming giant who also played for the Lakers, but infuriated him because he little-brothered him and did not train like he did. (No one trained like he did.) To prove he was the best of basketball's lovers, he would g...
The swine-flu pandemic, which was caused by the h1n1 virus and infected 16% of the worlds population in 2009, brought home the message that doctors would have to make such tough decisions when big epidemics strike, says Dan Hanfling of In-Q-Tel, an A...
Dr Hick says the biggest challenge if the disease starts to circulate widely in Minneapolis will be staffing. With no vaccine to protect them, many doctors and nurses will be infected. Others will need to stay at home to look after their children bec...
Confirming a suspected infection in a laboratory can take days. Some small European countries have just one or two laboratories able to process covid-19 tests. Europes entire supply of test kits is shipped from the two main laboratories of the Europe...
