In need of Comfort: New York's covid-19 crisis
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
New York is at the centre of America’s—and the world’s—coronavirus crisis. The metropolis has also been caught in a damaging three-way political division, involving three of its native sons. In the Middle East and north Africa, governments have imposed unusually harsh covid-19 crackdowns, but will the authoritarians let up afterwards? And we report on a golden age for African art.
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| 1:00.2 | The Middle East and North Africa have so far been spared the worst of COVID-19, with |
| 1:05.2 | a terrible exception of Iran. |
| 1:08.0 | Across the region astonishingly tight restrictions are in force, but will authoritarian regimes |
| 1:13.5 | loosen their grip when the health crisis passes. |
| 1:18.2 | And African art is enjoying a golden age, encompassing artists in all mediums from across |
| 1:24.4 | the continent, auctions online naturally, of attracting more interest than ever. |
| 1:30.2 | We report on a boom that seems likely to last. |
| 1:38.4 | But first... |
| 1:43.0 | Yesterday, the USNS Comfort slowly made its way around the Statue of Liberty to dock in |
| 1:49.2 | New York City's harbor. |
| 1:52.5 | With 12 operating rooms and 1,000 hospital beds, the enormous Navy hospital ship has been |
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