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Fast-acting countries cut their coronavirus death rates while US delays cost thousands of lives

  • Written by Joshua Aizenman, Professor of International Relations and Economics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Fast-acting countries cut their coronavirus death rates while US delays cost thousands of livesNew research hints at why Germany's death toll from COVID-19 was relatively low while Italy's and America's spiked. Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images

If cities across the U.S. had moved just one week faster to shut down restaurants and businesses and order residents to stay home, they could have avoided over 35,000 coronavirus deaths by early May, ne...

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