Coronavirus threatens US, world economy with a different kind of contagion

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — It’s been nearly three weeks since the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency in response to the coronavirus, or COVID-19. More than 50 million people remain under quarantine in China with the number of deaths approaching 1,900.

The economic impact has spread along the same path as the virus. There are more than 73,00 confirmed cases in 29 countries. It has threatened a cascade effect throughout global supply chains that bodes poorly for the world economy as well as the United States if authorities are unable to get the outbreak under control soon. …

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