Editorial: How not to protect the economy from a coronavirus downturn
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Mar 12, 2020
3 minutes
You can't say we didn't see this one coming. Scientists and policymakers have been aware for decades of the enormous threat to society of a viral pandemic. Yet still, it feels like the outbreak of a novel coronavirus caught the United States unprepared for some of the main challenges it poses.
A good example is the fact that the government doesn't appear to have had a comprehensive plan in place for shoring up the U.S. economy in the face of the kind of
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