“Economic policy goals are in conflict with public-health policy goals”—governments’ covid-19 aid

AS AMERICA lawmakers reach a deal on the country’s largest-ever rescue package, we examine how planners are balancing the health of their citizens and that of their economies. China’s lockdown came in the midst of the spring planting season; what can other countries learn about how to keep food flowing? And the increasingly perilous lives of crocodile hunters in the Congo River basin. Runtime: 22min

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