List of Pandemics articles
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A representative stands in front of a monitor at Sinopharm CNBG’s COVID-19 vaccine production facility during a media tour in Beijing on Feb. 26. At China’s Borders, “Vaccine Passports” Just Got Real
In announcing it would prioritize travelers who had received Chinese-made vaccines, Beijing sparked outrage in countries where those aren’t available.
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Rafael Grossi speaks at an IAEA press conference. Rafael Grossi Has a Plan to Stop Future Pandemics
The ambitious head of the IAEA is reinventing the nuclear watchdog—though some fear he’s spreading the agency too thin.
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Roberto Burioni photographed in Perugia, Italy, on April 9, 2017. Italy’s Dr. Fauci Talks Like Trump—but Is It Working?
Roberto Burioni fuses science with vulgar rhetoric to combat anti-vaxxers.
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Illustration shows coronavirus cracking a skull to symbolize the failure of social science predictions. Everyone Was Wrong on the Pandemic’s Societal Impact
In March 2020, a study asked experts and laypeople for their predictions. Neither group came close to being right.
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Volunteers install U.S. flags in Washington. U.S. Exceptionalism Created Deadly COVID-19 Failures
The U.S. calamity wasn’t Trump’s fault alone—but it doesn’t have to happen again.
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china-pandemic-failure-Li-Wenliang-Tomasz-Walenta-illustration The Chinese Government’s Cover-Up Killed Health Care Workers Worldwide
Bad advice based on false information led to fatal mistakes.
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Slovakian Prime Minister Igor Matovic and Health Minister Marek Krajci speak at Kosice International Airport. What Happened to Slovakia’s Coronavirus Success Story?
The country’s swift fall shows that managing a pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint.
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Workers pack syringes at the Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices factory in Faridabad, India, on Sept. 2, 2020. To Democratize Vaccine Access, Democratize Production
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.
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Commuters sleep while waiting for the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to open to cross to the United States from Tijuana, Mexico The Human Cost of Endless Pandemic Border Closures
One year after the world declared borders shut, there is still no plan to reduce the toll on millions of lives.
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A doctor receives a dose of the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Quetta, Pakistan, on Feb. 3. Doctors Struggle to Convince Pakistanis to Get Their Vaccine Shot
The country has too few shots, a stubborn public, and little experience—but the program may still work.
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South African trial volunteers wait for a potential vaccine against COVID-19 Don’t Let Drug Companies Create a System of Vaccine Apartheid
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.
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A Palestinian man and his wife ride a donkey cart past street art showing doctors wearing masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza Strip, on Nov. 16, 2020. Countries Are Ramping Up Vaccinations. What About Refugees?
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.
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Members of AIDS activist group ACT UP hold up signs of George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, and Jesse Helms along with a banner stating “Silence Equals Death” as they protest at the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Maryland, on Oct. 11, 1988. U.S. Leaders Forgot the Lessons of the AIDS Crisis by Not Doing the Reading
Literature’s power to illuminate otherness makes it critical to leadership.
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Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 5 Washington. Trump Is Guilty of Pandemicide
History will show the former U.S. president was staggeringly negligent during the pandemic’s deadly third wave.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine What if Countries That Excel at Vaccinations Still Don’t Achieve Herd Immunity?
Israel emerges as a test case.
