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COVID Lessons From Japan: The Right Messaging Empowers Citizens
There’s no perfect solution to suppress the pandemic, but careful study and communication are key. Through six waves of COVID-19 in Japan, the number of cases…
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COVID Derailed Learning for 1.6 Billion Students. Here’s How Schools Can Help Them Catch Up
The pandemic is the largest disruption to education in history. But research has identified ways to help children make up lost ground. Will they work in…
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Covid-19’s True Toll on India
India is no stranger to political controversies. At least half a dozen rage in its fractious public life at any time. But perhaps the most unseemly…
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What is China’s Covid-19 Endgame?
The government’s political stake in the strategy’s early success has become a barrier to recovery. For most of the past two years, China’s “zero-COVID” strategy was…
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The Leaked WTO COVID Patent Waiver Text Promises A Very Bad Deal
South Africa owes it to the nations that supported its initial waiver proposal to reject the text and continue negotiations. In October 2020, South Africa and…
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Five Lessons The Pandemic Taught Us About Ending Homelessness Permanently
One surprising success story to come out of the pandemic was how many countries and cities were able to significantly reduce street homelessness. Lockdowns enabled governments…
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Think Omicron’s Just A Mild Cold? Think Again
COVID-19 arrived at our house recently and what a guest it was. It’s been around two weeks since my oldest daughter tested positive. She is still…
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Another COVID Wave Is Looming
About three weeks ago, COVID case rates in the United Kingdom made an abrupt about-face, spurred on by a more transmissible Omicron subvariant called BA.2. (So…
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The Education Pandemic
My children last entered their school gates on March 10, 2020, weeks before India’s national lockdown was announced. Two years on, schools in much of the…
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Eight Changes the World Needs to Make to Live With COVID
More and more people have been asking for a return to normal, and with omicron waning, governments are starting to act. The UK, for example, is…
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An ‘Endemic’ COVID Doesn’t Mean We Stop Fighting
Governors of several states are proposing that we treat COVID-19 as an endemic disease, meaning it will always be with us and we must “learn to…
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Lessons From COVID-19 in Combating Chronic Illness
Saudi Arabia has achieved significant success in combating COVID-19, having one of the most effective national responses to the virus and avoiding potentially vast loss of…