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Members of the Tongan community dance at a drive-through coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination clinic in Onehunga during a single-day vaccination drive, aimed at significantly increasing the percentage of vaccinated people in the country, in Auckland, New Zealand, October 16, 2021.

The End of New Zealand's Zero-COVID Policy

by Jennifer Curtin

Many worry it will magnify existing inequalities

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A man sanitizes a privacy booth to fight the spread of COVID-19 at a polling station in New York City, United States, on October 25, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Holding Incumbents Accountable: COVID-19 at the Ballot Box

by Samantha Kiernan, Caroline Kantis

Lessons from elections during the pandemic in Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, and South Korea

U.S. President Donald J. Trump swings a wooden baseball bat, celebrating a new jobs report, as he attends a "Spirit of America Showcase" event at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2020. The photo shows the president hamming it up with people staffing booths and swinging a red bat. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
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Midsummer for the Season—But Not the Coronavirus

by William A. Haseltine

A case in poor leadership, the U.S. containment strategy has lacked clarity, consistency, credibility, and compassion

Taoyuan health worker Wang Tsui-lien rides a scooter to deliver care packages and to check on people who have been ordered to be under self-quarantine, in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on March 25, 2020. Photo shows a motorcycle on an abandoned street in an urban setting. REUTERS/Ann Wang
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Taiwan's Response to COVID-19 and the WHO

An interview with Taiwanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaushieh Joseph Wu on Taiwan's response to COVID-19 and the WHO

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron all giving recent press briefings on COVID-19. The composite photo shows the four leaders speaking variously at podiums in their countries. REUTERS/Michel Kappeler/Markku Ulander(Lehtikuva)/Kevin Lamarque/Loic Venance
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Coronavirus

by Roopa Dhatt, Ilona Kickbusch

A gendered and political analysis of world leaders’ COVID-19 pandemic statements in March 2020

Old coffee cans of shotgun shells dropped off to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at the “Gifts for Guns” buyback in Compton, California on January 21, 2013. Picture shows two bright red, rusted out coffee tins filled to the brim with shotgun shells, red shells in the first tin, blue in the second. REUTERS/David McNew
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The Global Experience of Gun Control

by Vin Gupta

Firearm Deaths, including suicides, are averted when treated as a public health problem—so why not in the United States?