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People enjoy the sun at an outdoor restaurant, despite the continuing spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Stockholm, Sweden March 26, 2020. The photo shows a large number of people sitting lose together in an outdoor eating area. TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson via REUTERS

Five Problems With the Swedish Approach to COVID-19

by Theo Vos, Katherine Leach-Kemon

As herd immunity remains elusive, Sweden’s experience seems to be a cautionary tale—Norway and Denmark have fared better

Governance
A man wears a protective facemask decorated with a question mark in lower Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York, U.S., May 22, 2020. Picture shows a well groomed man who appears to be in his 30s wearing a mask adorned with a huge question mark. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Uncertainty and the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Abraham D. Flaxman, Kevin O’Rourke

Understand and embrace uncertainty to get the most out of forecasts

Congolese girls displaced by war stand on the outskirts of a makeshift camp near Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on February 11, 2009. The photo shows two girls standing on a hill overlooking a camp filled with white tents at sunset. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
Gender

Dual Pandemics: Coronavirus and Gender-Based Violence

by Karen Sherman

With violence doubling in some places, women bear the brunt of COVID-19—lessons from Rwanda for a post-pandemic world