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The coronavirus stimulus package: not just another trip down the Swanee?

12 March 2020

8:09 AM

12 March 2020

8:09 AM

We have mixed messages on coronavirus: Angela Merkel has said 60-70 per cent of Germans will contract the disease, while the latest data from China and South Korea shows new cases having peaked and, in the case of China, recoveries closing in on new cases.  

Aside from spending on health precautions and seeking to staunch the spread, what do governments do?   

The Trump Administration is talking about ensuring those thrown out of work are looked after financially – the equivalent of community action in medieval plagues when stricken villages were isolated but fed by those nearby.  In

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