The trade-off between economic growth and coronavirus containment

By Kent R. Kroeger (Source: NuQum.com; October 19, 2020)

A Russian woman in a medical mask during the 2020 coronavirus epidemic (Photo by: https://www.vperemen.com; Used under the CC-BY-SA license)

Our World In Data (OWID), a non-profit organization that provides open-source access to worldwide economic and development data, recently asked a simple question on its website: Have the countries experiencing the largest economic decline performed better in protecting the nation’s health, as we