Tag: Pandemic

The G20’s Pandemic Wake-Up Call (Masood Ahmed, Project-Syndicate)

G20 leaders must recognize that pandemics are a national and global security threat, and expend some political capital to shift the international health-security machinery...

Predictive Model Illustrates Transmissibility of COVID-19 (Erin McNemar, MPA, Health IT Analytics)

University of Chicago researchers used flu data and similarities to create a predictive model showing how COVID-19 spreads. While COVID-19 is more transmissible and deadlier than most...

Rule of law takes a big hit during COVID-19 (Ted Piccone, Brookings)

The global pandemic has dramatically impaired the lives of millions of people around the world. It has also dealt a body blow to democracy,...

Covid and the failure of global cooperation (Stephen Greenville, The Interpreter)

Book Review: Adam Tooze Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy (Allen Lane, 2021) Adam Tooze’s account of the 2008 financial crisis – Crashed – demonstrated his ability to...

At UN trade meeting, Guterres urges ‘quantum leap in support’ for vulnerable nations (UN News)

Warning that uneven recovery is leaving much of the world behind, Mr. Guterres urged greater support for vulnerable nations as they tackle the challenges of...

North Africa COVID cases plummeting after summer spike (Al Jazeera)

Weeks after a spike in coronavirus cases overwhelmed intensive care units across North Africa with severe oxygen shortages sparking public anger, case numbers are...

FDA Panel Wants to Deny Adults the Right to Decide How Much COVID Protection They Want (Jeffrey A. Singer, CATO Institute)

The Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisory panel recommended against approving Pfizer/​BioNTech booster vaccinations for the general population aged 16 and above. The boosters are currently...

Emergency, exception, risk for democracy (by Marco Emanuele)

The pandemic is just the latest pretext for a debate that needs to be shared. I intervene in this reasoning with a critical and...

Digital/Pandemic. Cash and the city: Digital COVID-19 social response in Kinshasa (Paul Bance, Laura Bermeo, and François Kabemba, Brookings)

As COVID-19 spread across the world, governments responded with an unprecedented increase in social assistance measures. Policymakers had to shift their focus to urban areas, particularly slums,...

BRI. The pandemic-induced BRI: Then, now and what next? (Soumya Bhowmick, ORF)

The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly hurting the global economy in a multitude of ways. Not only have the intermittent lockdowns and other restrictions interrupted...

Pandemic. Innovation beyond patent waivers: Achieving global vaccination goals through public-private partnerships (Harvey Rubin and Nicholas Saidel, Brookings)

The international effort to achieve global COVID-19 vaccination goals faces a dilemma. Stakeholders in this space are at odds over how to treat intellectual...

Pandemic. The Next Pandemic Could Come Soon and Be Deadlier (Center for Global Development)

Eleni Smitham and Amanda Glassman Pandemic risk is largely underestimated and actions to prepare for outbreaks are grossly underinvested. The spread and severity of COVID-19 felt like...

Asian Development Bank/Pandemic. How Effectively Is the Asian Development Bank Responding to COVID-19? An Early Assessment (Center for Global Development)

Azusa Sato , Rakan Aboneaaj and Scott Morris In 2020, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) joined efforts by other multilateral development banks (MDBs) to rapidly scale up support to...

Pandemic/Extremism – Whose side are they on? The diversity of far-right responses to Covid-19 (ICCT)

Teun van Dongen, Eviane Leidig From the very beginning of the pandemic, government officials in the UK, Germany, and Australia voiced concerns that extreme right individuals would use the lockdown...

Vietnam – Delta variant outbreak challenges Vietnam’s COVID-19 response strategy (Brookings)

Huong Le Thu Vietnam’s COVID-19 response had been one of the most effective in the world. Its comparatively record low number of cases and deaths and its...

Global – Global governance after COVID-19: Survey report (Brookings)

Kemal Derviş and Sebastian Strauss The Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings conducted a survey on multilateralism in the Spring of 2021 as part of a...