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February 27, 2020
13 million: Beginning on Monday, Japan will close every school in the country until at least April 8 to combat the spread of coronavirus. The measure affects about 13 million students, who will have to remain at home. Family and work schedules will be disrupted on a massive scale.
33: One third of Americans, 33%, say they have little confidence that votes will be counted fairly in the 2020 election, according to a new poll. The remaining two thirds were split just about evenly between those with "great" confidence and those who are "somewhat" confident. Are these numbers a glass one-third full or one-third empty?
42: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's approval rating in Mexico City, the country's capital, has fallen to 42%, according to the daily Reforma. Lopez Obrador served as mayor of Mexico City from 2000-2005, and it's long been considered an AMLO stronghold.
3,270: A man in the US state of Florida thought he had coronavirus, so he went to a hospital to get tested. The results were negative, but he was still stuck with a $3,270 bill from his insurance company.
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In this Quick Take, Ian Bremmer breaks down the escalating US-Israel war with Iran and its ripple effects on global markets and supply chains.
As missiles fly and oil prices soar, the Iran war is exposing another major resource vulnerability in the Middle East: water. Fresh water has been a scarce commodity in a region defined by a dry climate and low rainfall, but attacks on the region’s desalination plants, which convert seawater into drinking water, threaten to open a new front.
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