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The do have several articles of the sort you're interested in:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/business/economy/coronavi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/coronavirus-econ...

are two examples.

These seem to be general discussions about the state of the economy. They still are not making an attempt to forecast how long the economy can minimally support civilization without reopening. I don't see a "what is worse" analysis.

I also don't see any mention of the myriad studies published demonstrating how mortality rates increase in many different ways during periods of economic decline.

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