Italy topples China as COVID-19 super spreader

David Llewellyn-Smith

Friday 6 March 2020

The daily COVID-19 body count has now left China behind:

Total Covid-19 cases caught outside of China

Italy is now the gun super spreader. No travel bans here and in Europe are a massive mistake:

The north Atlantic is about to become the global epi-centre:

Number of days for Covid-19 cases and deaths in China to double

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.