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Migration
People ride a motorbike amidst smoke from fumigation during a fumigation campaign while the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, on April 13, 2020. This is a powerful photo showing two men on one motorbike driving through a thick cloud of disinfectant mist. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Coronavirus, War, and Yemen in Between: A Recipe for Disaster

by Walid A. Al-Soneidar, Nezar N. Al-Hebshi

Without a collective effort to suppress COVID-19 in conflict zones, people in those areas will pay the highest price

Poverty
Residents look from behind a closed gate as members of the military patrol during a nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of novel coronavirus—in Soweto, South Africa on April 23, 2020. The photo shows several people congregated behind a closed fence though there is a very large gap between the fence and the adjacent wall. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

by Rumi Chunara, Rajesh Vedanthan, ​​​​​​​Olatunji Matthew Kolawole, Gbenga Ogedegbe

When collecting COVID-19 data and modeling epidemic curves, we need to take more into account—in Africa and elsewhere

Workers clean the area around the podium before a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak task force press conference in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 2020. This is a striking image for its subject matter. It's a shot of the podium we don't normally see—empty of politicians and instead a worker in protective gear is cleaning the White House emblem. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Governance

Politics May Kill Us, Not the Coronavirus

by Eduardo J. Gómez, Sandro Galea

In these times of pandemic, crisis, and despair we need more bipartisan support for rational actions informed by science