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    The Inequity of Vaccine Passports

    by Samantha Kiernan, Serena Tohme, Kailey Shanks

    Tracking the global use of COVID-19 vaccine certificates

    Guardia Civil officer watches as passengers, wearing protective face masks, walk upon arrival from Paris at Adolfo Suarez Barajas airport as Spain reopens June 2020
    Poverty

    Tentative Victory Against Ebola in Eastern Congo

    by John Campbell

    Success against Ebola through quarantines, contact-tracing, and good hygiene bodes well for future response to COVID-19

    Arlette Kavugho, 40, a mother of six who survived an Ebola infection stands in Katwa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on October 2, 2019 holding 16 months old Kambale Eloge, whose mother died of Ebola. Photo shows Arlette holding the baby in front of a clinic while two other health workers stand in the background. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
    Governance

    Why Social Policies Make Coronavirus Worse

    by Emily Mendenhall

    Too late for COVID-19, but strengthening safety nets and health security in U.S. would help us respond to future threats

    A mannequin with a surgical mask on display where a vendor sells packages of masks on a corner in the Chelsea neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City on March 27, 2020. The photo shows a mannequin wearing a blue mask. REUTERS/Mike Segar
    Aging

    Coronavirus in Toronto—Lessons Lost on a Second SARS

    by Allison Daniel

    The city's COVID-19 response is strongly informed by the experience of the earlier outbreak—but by no means exceptional

    Bird's eye view: visitors take in a panoramic scene of the city of Toronto, Canada, from the 553 meters (1815 feet) high CN Tower, which just reopened after coronavirus restrictions on July 15, 2020. The photo shows a woman wearing a mask looking out from the skyview of the tall building with the Toronto cityscape beneath her. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
    Governance

    Global Health Needs a New Approach to Evidence Grading

    by Luke Shors, Amit Chandra

    COVID-19 crisis highlights how some important questions have to be answered without the benefit of experimental studies

    Statue of the Turkish Folkloric Figure Nasreddin Hoca, who looked for his keys in a well-lit place because it was too dark to look for them where they were. Photo shows a statue of the famous figure riding backward on a donkey. GETTY Images/Corbis/Chris Hellier
    Urbanization

    I Am an ER Doctor in New York City

    by Vineet Kumar Sharma

    The unseen mental and emotional cost of the COVID-19 pandemic—chronicled in the journals of one emergency physician

    Health care workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the coronavirus outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 4, 2020. The photo shows two people in blue protective suits wheeling people away from a hospital entrance. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
    Governance

    10 Good Things That Happened in Global Health in 2021

    by Haydn Welch

    There were milestones and moments to celebrate, despite the shadow of COVID-19

    Employees look for holes in mosquito netting at the A to Z Textile Mills factory where insecticide-treated bed nets are produced, in Arusha, Tanzania, on May 10, 2016.
    Trade

    Coronavirus in Iran—An Isolated Response?

    by Ray Takeyh

    As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, will Tehran wean itself off suspicions and collaborate in efforts to control the virus?

    A man looks at parliamentary election campaign posters in Tehran, Iran on February 19, 2020. The photo shows the man standing in front of a board that is placarded with multiple political campaign posters, many of them identical and pasted over and over. The predominant colors are green, white, and red—like the Iranian flag. WANA/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS.
    Governance

    Coronavirus in the Middle East

    by Steven A. Cook

    A look at COVID-19 in seven countries, some fragile or failed, which illustrates many of the problems the region faces

    A worker in protective suit sprays disinfectants in front of a dress shop at popular market following the outbreak of the coronavirus in Basra, Iraq on March 10, 2020. This is an interesting photo showing a colorful dress shop with a worker walking by outside in protective gear spraying disinfectant. REUTERS/Essam al-Sudani
    Governance

    Sports Teams Took Their Shots, But Fans Lag Behind

    by Annie Chan

    What NFL, WNBA, and other professional athletes and teams around the globe can teach us about COVID-19 vaccination

    The Kansas City Chiefs come out of the tunnel for the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 26, 2021.
    Trade

    Long-Term Impacts of Coronavirus in South Korea

    by Scott Snyder

    Despite South Korea’s high capacity for response, COVID-19's spread may incite human, economic, and political disasters

    South Korean soldiers in protective gear sanitize a shopping street in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2020. The image is striking showing the soldiers dressed in silver space-suit looking protective gear walking down a more or less abandoned street in what appears to be a normally busy shopping district. REUTERS/Heo Ran
    Governance

    Coronavirus Epidemiology This Week

    by Tom Frieden

    We won’t stop COVID-19 until we focus on the data that matter

    The image shows a heat map of the United States with states colored according to the higher number of tests coming back positive