Caroline Kantis

Caroline Kantis is an interdepartmental program assistant at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously interned for the Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and worked for Deal Street Asia in Singapore. Caroline graduated with honors with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a focus in Comparative Political, Social, and Economic systems from the Elliott School of International Affairs. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Security Policy Studies also at the Elliott School.

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Painting of the Staten Island Quarantine Facility—built in 1799 to care for yellow fever patients, where by the 1850s all passengers from newly arrived ships with signs of a disease were quarantined. The image is an oil painting showing a bustling waterway with lots of tall ships with sails lowered and smaller vessels ferrying cargo to them. GETTY IMAGES/Keith Lance
Urbanization

Plague Ships, Shotgun Mobs, and the "Saffron Scourge"

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

Recalling the massive, deadly New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1878—and what lessons it holds for coronavirus today

Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville give outstanding performances in the new film ORDINARY LOVE, from Bleecker Street, and they are helped by a powerful, semi-autobiographical script by Owen McCafferty. Image is of the two actors sitting together and smiling in a hospital waiting room. Credit: Aidan Monaghan/Bleecker Street
Aging

“Ordinary Love” and Extraordinary Compassion

by Jason Socrates Bardi, Caroline Kantis

New film starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville depicts the gloomy, gray uncertainty of modern breast cancer treatment

Test tube with Corona virus name label is seen in this illustration taken on January 29, 2020. Photo shows a gloved hand holding a test tube labeled, “2019 nCoV” with two boxes ,marked “Positive” and “Negative.” The positive box is checked. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Governance

UPDATED: Timeline of the Coronavirus

by Caroline Kantis, Samantha Kiernan, Jason Socrates Bardi

A frequently updated tracker of emerging developments from the beginning of the novel coronavirus outbreak