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Editor's Note There is no place like home for the holidays, or so goes the famous Christmas song, but our first piece reports data showing that interstate travel is surging to levels not seen since early March, despite warnings from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention of the likely consequences. Our next piece looks at the psychological toll from prolonged isolation in the coronavirus pandemic and identifies useful strategies for its mitigation, including exercise and video-chatting with friends and family. The coronavirus, however, is not the only public health priority. Our next author highlights how menstrual health continues to be overlooked in emergency responses across the globe and in pro-poor programs. Wrapping up our final piece discusses the lessons to be learned from countries that have adopted universal health care. We wish health and happiness to our readers celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday and gratitude for this opportunity to connect with you. —Thomas J. Bollyky, Editor
This Week's Highlights
There Is No Place Like Home for the Holidays by Samantha Kiernan and Priyanka Sethy U.S. air travel reaches record levels during the pandemic as COVID-19 cases surge across the country
An Overlooked Need in Global Emergencies by Bahar Aldanmaz Amplified in crises, period poverty is often overlooked in government and humanitarian responses
The Psychological Toll of the Pandemic: What Isolation Does to the Brain by Robin Blades The worldwide increase in isolation during COVID-19 is sure to exact a psychological toll on people across the globe
Stat of the Week
4 Million Almost four million Americans haven taken to the air since last Thursday, and more than 130 airports have recorded COVID-19 infections among Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees in just the past month
Recommended Feature
The Long Road to Universal Health Coverage by Priyanka Sethy President-Elect Joe Biden's team can learn from other democracies on how to move the needle on universal health coverage
What We're Reading The Last Children of Down Syndrome (Atlantic) Racial, Ethnic Minorities Reel From Higher COVID-19 Death Rates (Washington Post) Coronaviruses Closely Related to the Pandemic Virus Discovered in Japan and Cambodia (Nature) This Pandemic Must Be Seen (Wired) CDC Helps Identify Virus Behind Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak In Bolivia (Forbes)
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Weekly Think Global Health Newsletter
November 25, 2020
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