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argues that China’s experience holds three lessons for other countries. Talk to the public, and do so early. Take measures to slow the spread of the disease, flattening the spike in the epidemic. And prepare health systems for what is to come. China has bought other governments time. They should use it.
Post-Brexit Britain, says Boris Johnson, will spend a lot more on science: the prime minister has promised to more than double annual spending by 2024-25, and more may be on the way. Britain ranks below other rich countries in R&D spending, concentrating its efforts on pure rather than applied research. That may shift; and areas outside the “golden triangle” of Cambridge, Oxford and London may be favoured . Although researchers can expect a post-Brexit bonanza,fear the opposite.
Guyana has the world’s third-highest suicide rate and the highest rate of maternal mortality in South America. Two-fifths of Guyanese live on less than $5.50 a day. Yet South America’s third-poorest country also has vast oil reserves—more, per person, than Qatar or Saudi Arabia. The oil has started to flow, and the economy is about to be transformed: the IMF expects it to grow by 85% this year and by 2024 income per person could rise from $5,000 to $19,000, nearly the same as in Poland.
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