Shoppers take an escalator in South Coast Plaza on the day it reopened after closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Aug. 31 in Costa Mesa, California Mario Tama/Getty Images
Shoppers take an escalator in South Coast Plaza on the day it reopened after closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Aug. 31 in Costa Mesa, California Mario Tama/Getty Images
The US economy in the summer recovered much of the historically enormous ground it lost in the spring, expanding at the fastest rate on record in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Still, the recovery remains incomplete. The economic crisis that Covid-19 brought on is far from over, and the pandemic threatens to plunge the American economy into turmoil again as infection numbers continue to rise rapidly across the country.
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