Restless citizenry; clinical success and failure; holding China to account

1. Difficult reopening. More and more countries are moving to reopen their economies, schools, and other parts of society, and each offers a different mix of measures aiming to balance economic recovery, societal (new) normalcy, and health security, with an eye to avoiding a second wave of infections in the fall.

What these different countries share, though, is a sense of growing popular impatience, confusion, and anger, as businesses are idle, people are unemployed, economic hardships grow, and the cost of the strict lockdowns become more apparent.

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