Here’s the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic – CNN

Comprehending the toll the coronavirus has taken is complicated. Its spread may not end for weeks or months more.

The following numbers may help you make sense of it. Here are the ways -- in dollars, percentages and lives -- that coronavirus has knocked the world off its axis.

1

200,000

April 14

1.6 billion

97%

$2 trillion

22 million

0

The investment bank published its grim report less than one month before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. A steep decline in Chinese economic activity, paired with US businesses that have since halted, could potentially lead to a recession, the company said.

March 16

$-37.63

$225 billion

1 in 3

"They make less money, they have less saved up to weather emergencies and they are at greater risk for displacement and homelessness than homeowners."

20 million

16

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