Health

U.S. and European COVID-19 shots aren’t enough. It is time to tap into Africa, Asia, and Latin America’s enormous production capacity.

One year after the world declared borders shut, there is still no plan to reduce the toll on millions of lives.

The country has too few shots, a stubborn public, and little experience—but the program may still work.

To avoid repeating the pitfalls of the HIV/AIDS crisis, governments and the WTO must make COVID-19 vaccination a public good by temporarily waiving intellectual property rights and compelling emergency production.

With millions stranded in camps with limited access to shots, there’s a big problem looming in the world’s quest to quash COVID-19.

Pledges of global vaccine solidarity have been slow to produce results.

Literature’s power to illuminate otherness makes it critical to leadership.

History will show the former U.S. president was staggeringly negligent during the pandemic’s deadly third wave.

Israel emerges as a test case.

Why paranoid island states have done the best when it comes to fighting COVID-19.

John Magufuli’s coronavirus denialism and refusal of vaccines have put millions of Tanzanians at risk.

Artificial intelligence can help fix it.

Political psychologists offer a new approach to authoritarianism, Ukraine clamps down on pro-Russian media, and a critically acclaimed documentary chronicles Wuhan’s lockdown.

Ageism has colored the response to COVID-19 and is setting everyone up for a more difficult economic recovery.

A deluge of online conspiracy theories is dividing an already polarized country.

Health care initiatives could be the key to rebuilding U.S. influence in the region—and healthier economies and societies for the region’s citizens.

It helped, but the countries that fared best had other factors at play.

No country with China’s vast education and public health problems has ever broken out of the ranks of middle-income countries.