Winter is coming: covid-19’s next phase
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Soon the pandemic will have claimed a million lives. We take a broad look at what has been learned—and the deadly mistakes still being made. Our correspondent visits Wuhan, site of the first known outbreak, to find a city that beneath the surface has much healing yet to do. And a close look at New York’s much-loved, much-derided accent.
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| 0:00.0 | Truth is, humanity can save itself and our planet. |
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| 0:56.8 | You'll be listening to the latest news. |
| 1:04.7 | Some of those challenges are evident in Wuhan, site of the first known coronavirus outbreak. |
| 1:10.8 | Closed down in January with remarkable speed and stringency. |
| 1:15.3 | Our correspondent returns there, seeing how the city has and hasn't recovered. |
| 1:21.9 | And later, New York, New York. |
| 1:24.6 | It's a hell of a sound. |
| 1:26.6 | We consider what's behind the accent that's beloved, derided, and imitated in equal measure |
| 1:32.4 | the world over. |
| 1:45.6 | This week in America, a grim and telling number, more than 200,000 people have now died |
| 1:52.5 | officially of COVID-19. |
| 1:54.6 | The House of Representatives held a moment of silence yesterday to acknowledge that painful |
| 1:59.3 | milestone. |
| 2:00.6 | More people have been infected there than in any other country, in the cases continue to |
| 2:05.6 | climb. |
| 2:06.6 | States that suffered the most are recovering, but infections and others are rising. |
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