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Business Matters: US virus expert warns against opening economy too soon

US virus expert warns against opening economy too soon

13/05/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, US virus expert warns against opening economy too soon

Dr Anthony Fauci spoke of the 'serious consequences' of lifting measures too quickly

Dr Anthony Fauci, the US's top infectious diseases adviser, told the senate that restarting the economy too soon could result in 'suffering and death'. We examine the political and economic debate with Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal.

Facebook has agreed to pay out $52 million to former moderators who claim the job gave them post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Reporter Zoe Thomas brings us the full story. 

Will the coronavirus change city life around the world? We ask David Sanderson, professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, how the global pandemic might transform our urban areas. 

Also in the programme, we hear from the only continent which hasn't been affected by the coronavirus - Antarctica. Karin Jansdotter has been at a research base there for the past six months.

Sasha Twining is joined by journalist and political correspondent Erin Delmore in New York and Jyoti Malhotra, journalist and author in New Delhi. 

(Picture: Sen. Richard Burr. Credit: Getty Images)

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