While Europe and Asia track down three-digit infection spikes at worst, the U.S. is dealing with over 40,000 a day.
Posts Tagged: Public Health
Brazil has joined the U.S. atop the list of worst-impacted countries. Both have far-right leaders -- and a legacy of institutional racism.
The U.S. may be at the center of both pandemics, but -- as worldwide demonstrations show -- each is global.
In politically turbulent Thailand, a public health system with popular support -- not decrees from above -- made all the difference.
In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.
An (imagined) conversation on the trade-offs between lives and dollars.
The story line from Reagan to Trump is the same: undermining global public health to serve narrow interests. Only now, we’re in a pandemic.
South Korea, having beaten back the coronavirus, is now poised to show the world how to move forward to save lives, democracy, and the planet.
India’s far-right government is focused more on PR than prevention. Brave independent reporters are calling it to account.
The Indian government’s repression of doctors and restrictions on the Internet could make the pandemic far deadlier in the formerly autonomous region.