Laurie Garrett


Laurie Garrett is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer.

Articles by Laurie Garrett
United States Postal Service mail carrier Frank Colon, 59, delivers mail amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 30, 2020 in El Paso, Texas.
United States Postal Service mail carrier Frank Colon, 59, delivers mail amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 30, 2020 in El Paso, Texas.
Picture of an empty classroom at the Eustaqui Palacios school in Cali, Colombia, taken on March 16, 2020.
Picture of an empty classroom at the Eustaqui Palacios school in Cali, Colombia, taken on March 16, 2020.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 14.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 14.
Joe Biden takes a selfie with an attendee during a campaign event
Joe Biden takes a selfie with an attendee during a campaign event
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects prevention and control work against the new coronavirus in Beijing on Feb. 10.
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects prevention and control work against the new coronavirus in Beijing on Feb. 10.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his former White House physician, Ronny Jackson, listen to a presentation about new technology used by the Department of Veterans Affairs during an event at the White House on Aug. 3, 2017.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his former White House physician, Ronny Jackson, listen to a presentation about new technology used by the Department of Veterans Affairs during an event at the White House on Aug. 3, 2017.
Medical staff members arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital.
Medical staff members arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital.
Medical staff members wear protective clothing as they arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in China on Jan. 25.
Medical staff members wear protective clothing as they arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in China on Jan. 25.
Indian students wear masks of China's President Xi Jinping
Indian students wear masks of China's President Xi Jinping
Public health officials run thermal scans on passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Jan 8.
Public health officials run thermal scans on passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Jan 8.
A H7N9 bird flu patient is treated in a hospital in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, on Feb. 12, 2017.
A H7N9 bird flu patient is treated in a hospital in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, on Feb. 12, 2017.
A Chinese U.N. soldier prepares a truckload of Ebola relief aid after it was airlifted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), on August 23, 2014 in Harbel, Liberia.
A Chinese U.N. soldier prepares a truckload of Ebola relief aid after it was airlifted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), on August 23, 2014 in Harbel, Liberia.
A Greenland ice melt lake atop the sheet, seen from 5,000 feet above, in August. Across Greenland’s massive ice sheet, blue pools of melted water, forming icy lakes, dot the landscape as far as the eye can see.
A Greenland ice melt lake atop the sheet, seen from 5,000 feet above, in August. Across Greenland’s massive ice sheet, blue pools of melted water, forming icy lakes, dot the landscape as far as the eye can see.