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Welcome Back to Reader Beware. Season One, Special Episode One: COVID-19: Public Health, Economy, and the Value of Life | Music by Tory White | Panel (Name / Area of Focus): Thomas "Roter" / Health Policy | Zac / International Business and Marketing Featured Piece: Lessons from Past Outbreaks Could Help Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic, by Sara Goudarzi - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lessons-from-past-outbreaks-could-help-fight-the-coronavirus-pandemic1/?fbclid=IwAR0T8HS4sgIBZtAKeoPD5x4FoXwhlbzRGjmnhSLb8TD9APvxymUA-X-eduM Supplamentary Reading: What Should the Government Spend to Save a Life, by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-should-the-government-spend-to-save-a-life/ For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power, by Selam Gebrekidan - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html Great Recession, great recovery? Trends from the Current Population Survey - https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/article/great-recession-great-recovery.htm Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32%, Fed estimates, by Jeff Cox - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-job-losses-could-total-47-million-unemployment-rate-of-32percent-fed-says.html How the Great Recession Hurt Americans' Health, by Olga Khazan - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/how-the-great-recession-hurt-americans-health/555431/ CDC Smoking & Tobacco Use: Fast Facts - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm#:~:text= CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years - https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/?fbclid=IwAR2QuRvGqV-lxRqsxXbuivzQlKM8BZ1v2PginvUrPy2cbSOZtjrXdPujiqY Correction and Update Sources: Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate, by William Wan, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Joel Achenbach - https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/02/experts-trumps-advisers-doubt-white-houses-240000-coronavirus-deaths-estimate/ Coronavirus batters US economy as 6.65m file for unemployment last week - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/02/us-unemployment-coronavirus-economy