This is not your typical economic crisis and so it’s no less critical to address covid apprehensions for the economy to recover Since about December, and certainly since March, the world has been rightly concerned about the covid-19 pandemic that has engulfed the world.
It must be remembered that the coronavirus that causes it seems to work in the same way as the swine flu epidemic of 2009-10.
Both affect the respiratory system. The impact of the swine flu epidemic is often forgotten: 60 million affected in the US alone, a country which saw over 12,000 deaths, with 500,000 deaths globally in about a year.
The much more pronounced global—and Indian—response to covid-19 is probably driven by the fact that social media influence is much
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