Coronavirus - The Global Economic Threat
The outbreak has already become highly disruptive to China; the U.S. will not be immune.
The coronavirus is a serious mounting threat to the fragile Chinese and global economies. It is hard to handicap how broadly the virus will ultimately spread and how virulent it will be, but it has already become highly disruptive to China and increasingly to the rest of Asia. The U.S. will not be immune to its ill effects.
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