Cailin Birch, a global economist for The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and EIU Consultant Vaibhav Sahgal recently presented “North America: Economic Implications of COVID-19 and Demand Sector Outlooks,” the first in TRSA’s series of Business Recovery webinars sponsored by Kannegiesser ETECH. As uncertainty about COVID-19 persists, financial markets worldwide have declined, and there are signs that the true impact of the virus is moving from the financial markets to the global economy.

The course of the pandemic will depend on national, country-level decisions. Currently, the assumption is that 50% of the world will be infected with around 1% of cases ...