Tag: Pandemic

PANDEMIC/CULTURE SHOCK – Post-Pandemic Culture Shock (Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA Center)

The coronavirus pandemic has created a new kind of culture shock. It has affected essential and highly personal elements of many people’s lives within...

PANDEMIC – Chile, Canada join growing list of nations banning travel to UK (Al Jazeera)

Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Canada have joined a growing list of nations in barring travel to and from the United Kingdom as part of...

PANDEMIC/CONTACT TRACING APPS – Economic incentives and regulation to increase COVID-19 app effectiveness (Nathan Sussman, VOXEU)

The development of contact tracing apps was a promising response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but too few people appear to be using the apps...

WORLD/PANDEMIC/VACCINES – What Is the World Doing to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines? (Claire Felter, CFR)

Governments and researchers have been working with an extremely ambitious timetable to provide billions of people with immunity to the new coronavirus. Now, the...

NETHERLANDS/UK/PANDEMIC – Netherlands bans UK flights after finding new coronavirus strain (Al Jazeera)

The Netherlands has banned flights carrying passengers from the United Kingdom after Dutch authorities found the first case of the new, more infectious coronavirus...

US CONGRESS/PANDEMIC/ECONOMY – US Congress to vote on COVID aid package after Fed compromise (Al Jazeera)

The US Congress appeared poised to vote on Sunday on a $900bn coronavirus aid package after senators struck a late-night compromise to clear one...

ITALY/LOCAL INEQUALITIES/PANDEMIC – Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis (Augusto Cerqua, Marco Letta, VOXEU)

There is widespread concern about the toll of the pandemic on local economies, but little causal evidence to assess its real costs. This column...

MIGRANTS/PANDEMIC – International Migrants Day and COVID-19 (Omer Karasapan, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/12/18/international-migrants-day-and-covid-19/

USA/INEQUALITY/PANDEMIC – Housing inequality gets worse as the COVID-19 pandemic is prolonged (Yung Chun and Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/18/housing-inequality-gets-worse-as-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-prolonged/

PANDEMIC/SUPPLY CHAINS – Supply Chains and Demand (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

The pandemic has shown that supply chains will need to be rethought, with more emphasis put on supplier diversification, domestic production, and stockpiling. The...