For a pull quote, you can use: “We don’t yet know if Sweden’s bet will pay off. While its death rate is twice Denmark’s, it’s only half of France’s ..."
Up to now, people worldwide and here at home have largely cooperated with government shutdowns, but things are changing. The economic cost has been unprecedented. More people have lost their jobs than did in the Great Depression. Small businesses that people spent their lifetimes building have been severely hurt and some have been destroyed. Trillions in stock values have gone “poof.”
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