Lebanon’s Dubious Second Wave and the Need to End Lockdown

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Lebanon must end its lockdown or face economic, fiscal, and monetary disasters that pose an even greater threat to the country than COVID-19. Surely, it was careless to allow a traveler from Nigeria on one of those flights to break quarantine and infect dozens of others. Even then, Denmark’s hospitalization for COVID-19 peaked at 533, which is within Lebanon’s healthcare capacity. To put it in further perspective, Lebanon’s overall annual death rate is 5.1 per thousand. Only 30 deaths resulted from the pandemic, or about 1/3 of 1% of all the deaths.