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The partial economic shutdown that began in mid-March 2020, along with additional nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing, are “flattening the curve” of measured infections and deaths, but at a tremendous economic cost. As the figures below show, weekly deaths in the US peaked in mid-April, but have subsequently declined only slowly. Since the first week in March, more than 20% of the US labor force filed for unemployment insurance, and the April unemployment rate of 14.7% is a level not seen since the Great Depression.