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Free homemade masks are offered in a front yard amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Keene, New Hampshire, on April 19, 2020.

Not All U.S. States Struggled Equally Against COVID-19

by Thomas J. Bollyky, Emma Castro, Joseph L. Dieleman, Isabella Turilli

What the U.S. death toll would have looked like if every state had performed as well as New Hampshire

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A man holds a flag during a march in opposition to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mandates on the National Mall in Washington, D.C

COVID-19's Repercussions on Public Health Policy and Law in the United States

by James G. Hodge

The pandemic has triggered regressive state-based law and policy reforms across America

A masked pedestrian walks over Westminster Bridge in London, on January 27, 2022.
Governance

What to Know About "Stealth" Omicron 

Professor Ali H. Mokdad gives the rundown on the omicron subvariant BA.2

A medical worker passes by street art featuring a frontline worker in a mask outside a clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the COVID-19 pandemic, on October 27, 2020.
Governance

Not Your Canaries in the Coal Mine

by Sonya Stokes, Kavita Patel

New CDC guidelines fail to protect frontline workers from COVID-19

People with and without masks attend the Florida State Fair as the new omicron “stealth variant” BA.2 spreads, in Tampa, Florida, February 11, 2022.
Governance

After the Mandates End

by Christopher Murray, Ali H. Mokdad

Preparing for the next COVID-19 variant

COVID-19 street art in Navi Mumbai, India, on March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Environment

The Art of a Pandemic

by Mary Brophy Marcus

COVID-19 street art from around the world

An inmate sentenced to ten months rakes leaves in Bastoy Prison in Horten, Norway on April 11, 2011.
Governance

How Norway's Prisons Have Weathered a Pandemic

by Ted Alcorn

Its famously progressive correctional system is anomalous, but still has lessons for other countries

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

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

by Priyanka Sethy, Samantha Kiernan

U.S. school systems are stuck between two bad choices. A classroom chair rests between two dismantled water fountains at Edmondson Westside High School in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 28, 2020. The photo shows a red chair in a beige-colorored hallway where two porticos feature white porcelain basins now dry for the pandemic. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Environment

The Kids Are (Not) Alright

by Kevin O’Rourke, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Theo Vos

Analyzing the evidence against—and in support of—reopening schools during COVID-19