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cord-029245-ay15ybcm	Davies, Stephen	Pandemics and the consequences of COVID‐19	2020-06-29		.txt	text/plain	3320	151	61	There is also an inescapable economic aspect to pandemics, in terms of both their dynamics (the way they spread and the reasons why they appear when and where they do), and their consequences, among which economic impacts loom large. (In 1918-19 the time it took Spanish flu to travel from one part of the world to another was measured in months.) All this leads to the conclusion that several features of the world we live in, such as high levels of economic integration and trade, widespread mass travel, and rapid modes of transport, make it much more vulnerable to a true pandemic. These and other features of the modern world also mean that the economic impact of an extensive epidemic is going to be much greater than was the case in, for example, 1968-69. Moreover, the early signs are that lockdowns may not have had such a dramatic effect on rates of infection and rapidity of spread during the first phase of this pandemic.	./cache/cord-029245-ay15ybcm.txt	./txt/cord-029245-ay15ybcm.txt