The coronavirus is teaching China an expensive lesson in public health: there is a huge cost to poisoning your air.The virus that has killed more than 3,200 people in the country and threatens to wipe out $2.7 trillion from the global economy is raising questions about how decades of air pollution affected China's ability to control the spread of Covid-19 and minimize the number of critical cases. As China's economy begins to rebound, government officials and citizens are calling for an increased effort not only to improve the public health system that strained under the pandemic, but to clean up an environment that's damaging people's health.
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