The economic shock of the world pandemic provoked an unprecedented collapse in world trade and output, but much of the ground lost has been recovered. The major economic impact may come from the condition known as Long Covid, with very substantial numbers of people debilitated, physically and mentally, over the long term. Two top economists from two sides of the planet, Dr. Richard Meade from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and Professor Danny Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the United States, assess this very human cost of the pandemic.
