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    Coronavirus poses dreadful choice for global leaders: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives

    by David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Mar 18, 2020 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The coronavirus pandemic has confronted governments around the globe with the ultimate bad choice: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives.

    While some initially hesitated, leaders and legislators in the United States and worldwide increasingly have decided they have to accept the severe economic pain.

    "Everything else will come back," President Donald Trump said Tuesday even as the economic downturn and global turmoil deepened. "Lives won't come back."

    The costs in either direction are enormous.

    U.S. officials know the worst-case scenarios could be extremely bad. The White House has based some of its new plans on a research model developed by doctors and scientists at Imperial College in London that suggests the coronavirus epidemic in the United States could kill at least 2.2 million Americans

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