Western nations have shifted their focus from trying to contain the novel coronavirus to slowing the speed of its transmission, but are struggling to calibrate their response, with the health imperative clashing with fears about the economic costs of shutting down activity across wide swaths of the developed world. Just hours before the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a global pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that two-thirds of Germans might eventually catch the virus,...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 11, 2020 21:49 UTC