Economies can be restarted if bold and imaginative choices are made

Central banks must lend without limit to counter the damage caused by the pandemic

What does the evidence suggest?

There are some brilliant sites for the numbers: Ourworldindata.org is the best.

Meta-surveys of original research are particularly helpful.

A great example is the extensive work of Noah Smith, a Bloomberg writer.

This, tentatively, is what I conclude from trawls of the published research and data.

If proper track, trace and quarantine regimes had existed at the right time, draconian lockdowns would not have been…