Experts: Travel bans, business closures could hurt economy

Travel restrictions and business closures aimed at stopping the spread of a new virus that has killed more than 300 people in China could end up causing ripple effects that harm the global economy, experts say.“When you stop planes and ships, trains and and motor vehicles from moving, it starts to shut down the economy — and that can have a cascading effect throughout society,”Dr. Eric Toner, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said Saturday, after m