Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate taking coronavirus seriously

Now is not the time for timid moderation

Bernie Sanders.
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The United States is virtually certain to suffer the worst epidemic of novel coronavirus in the rich world, and maybe anywhere. We are far behind the measures South Korea has taken to control its outbreak, and not even particularly close to what Italy is doing, where the carnage is horrible and accelerating. The resulting disruptions are creating an incipient economic recession which looks to be just as bad as the one in 2008, if not worse.

There is one presidential candidate whose political proposals match the scale of this crisis: Senator Bernie Sanders.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.