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    South Africa’s War on COVID-19

    by Charles Shey Wiysonge

    Key dates, interventions, and impacts of responses are helping to create a community of practice among African countries

    People cross normally busy—now largely empty—Adderley Street in central Cape Town, South Africa, on April 14, 2020, during the 21-day nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus. This is a stunning photo showing a broad main thoroughfare that is completely bereft of cars. Four people are seen crossing the wide street, each silhouetted against the early or late sun reflecting off the asphalt pavement. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
    Trade

    Britain's Moral Bankruptcy Over COVID-19 Vaccines

    by William A. Haseltine

    Why a study set to deliberately infect people with coronavirus is unethical, unnecessary, and likely to be uninformative

    Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reflected in a woman's eye as she watches his address to the nation following the outbreak of coronavirus in Manchester, England, on September 22, 2020. The photo shows a macro lens image of an eye with the image of the PM reflected in it. REUTERS/Phil Noble
    Poverty

    Epidemics and Infodemics in the Post-Truth Era, from Ebola to COVID-19

    by Sonya Stokes

    Social media can be a powerful weapon in the post-truth era. Or it can be a catalyst for the next global health disaster

    Traders sit near a deserted crossing point between Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus on March 23, 2020. The photo shows a number of women sitting in front of a storefront painted blue and adorned by a large cartoon figure of a cow giving a thumb's up. REUTERS/Olivia Acland
    Governance

    Leading by Example: COVID-19 Infections at the Highest Levels of Government

    by Priyanka Sethy, Samantha Kiernan

    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks at an event in Minsk, Belarus, September 17, 2020.
    Governance

    Solidarity, Agility and Continuity: Three Cornerstones of Ethiopia’s COVID-19 Response

    by Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin

    Resilience of health programs and other essential services today will become the gateway for a better Ethiopia tomorrow

    Woman health extension worker takes the temperature of a young girl outside a green door is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    Trade

    Commercial Determinants of Health in COVID-19

    by Adnan Hyder, Meghan Werbick, Paul Ndebele, Nino Paichadze

    Often part of the problem in pandemics, private sector businesses can be part of the solution as well and protect people

    Customers wearing facemasks are reflected in a mirror as they stand on an escalator inside the department store Le Printemps Haussmann in Paris, France, amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 28, 2020. The photo shows people on an escalator with the photo showing mirror images on the left and right of the frame. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
    Migration

    Travel Restrictions on China due to COVID-19

    by Samantha Kiernan, Madeleine DeVita

    A new global tracker mapping the impact of the new coronavirus on movement around the world

    The image is a map of the world showing different countries colored different hues based on four levels of travel restrictions.
    Governance

    How to Save Lives in a COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Cyrus Shahpar, Amanda McClelland, Tom Frieden

    Global preparedness is critical to saving lives and sparing health, societal, and economic impacts—now and in the future

    Image shows a graph with severity versus transmissibility and several pandemics plotted.
    Governance

    COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Community Health

    by Angela Gichaga, Amit Chandra, Nelly Wakaba, Claire K. Qureshi, Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy

    Turning the tide on the pandemic and achieving greater global health security demands stronger community health systems

    A general view of a food market after Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari called for a lockdown starting the same day to limit the spread of coronavirus in Lagos, Nigeria on March 30, 2020. The picture shows a market bustling with trade. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
    Governance

    President Biden's COVID-19 Summit and the Shift in Pandemic Geopolitics

    by David P. Fidler

    The pandemic is fading in importance for balance-of-power politics

    U.S. President Joe Biden sits in front of a large UShosts a virtual COVID Summit from the White House in Washington, DC, on September 22, 2021.
    Governance

    What Happens When COVID-19 Ends?

    by Ankit Raj

    The pandemic has exposed cracks in our health-care systems, shortsightedness of human interests, and poor public policy

    A man drives an auto-rickshaw depicting the coronavirus to create awareness about staying at home during a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19—in Chennai, India, on April 23, 2020. The image shows a vehicle painted red and covered with crown spikes reminiscent of the virus, which appear to be made of paper mache. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar
    Governance

    The Spiritual Dimension of COVID-19 in Africa

    by Ebenezer Obadare

    In Nigeria, the pandemic set up a political battlefield between Christian religious leaders and the state

    A woman attends a church service at Living Faith Church, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Abuja, Nigeria March 22, 2020