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A paper by research affiliate Christos A. Makridis finds that regions with more digitally-intensive jobs will be more insulated from the economic impacts of Covid-19, reports Alexandre Tanzi for Bloomberg. “U.S. counties with high concentrations of jobs in industries such as retail and health care could see as much as a 4% decline in their annual growth rate if the shutdowns last just a month.”