POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Coronavirus, Mortality Rate, World Trade Organization
19 Mar 2020
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Slow economic growth since 2008 financial crisis. High levels of personal, corporate and public debt. Costs of climate change and energy transition. Partially because the us is retreating from the international leadership. Emerged in december 2019 in wuhan china. No clear origin-- thought to be spread from animals. Flu is less than 1% (30,000 will die from the flu in the us this year) Sars was 10% (infected 8,000 and killed 750) Difference between sars and covid-19 is that sars only spread when people were visibly sick whereas covid is more difficult to diagnose. More cases outside china than in china. Central role of china in global production, trade and consumption. Affects radiate from china and affect countries in economic relations with china. Degree to which disease duplicates in other countries. Economic vulnerability (countries with closer links to china at greater risk of being impacted by disease) The stronger the health system the less vulnerable to disease.
