List of Pandemics articles
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A lab technician prepares stainless steel tanks used for manufacturing vaccines at French pharmaceutical company Sanofi’s world distribution center in Val-de-Reuil on July 10, 2020. The Global Vaccine Rollout Is Failing—and That Puts Everyone, Everywhere, In Danger
The selfish reasons the United States and Europe must help poor countries deal with COVID-19.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes off her face mask as she arrives for a a virtual news conference on security issues with French President Emmanuel Macron, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, at the Chancellery in Berlin on Nov. 10, 2020. Europe’s Vaccine Disaster Isn’t Lack of Supply
As the EU tries to acquire more vaccines, it’s failing to effectively use the ones it already has.
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Police control people in the restaurant Schronisko Smakow, on Jan. 18, 2021 at Bukowina Tatrzanska in the Tatra mountains, which was opened on Jan. 17 despite the lockdown. Poland’s Businesses Are Rejecting Their Lockdown
The Polish government ordered the economy to shut down. Small-business owners organized a mutiny.
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Workers pack syringes at the Hindustan Syringes factory in Faridabad, India on Sept. 2, 2020. India’s Vaccine Diplomacy
The world’s pharmacy is looking to inoculations to build friendly ties around the world—and compete with China.
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Candy Boyd, owner of the Boyd Funeral home, speaks during an interview next to an empty casket and cabinets built for expanded storage capacity of embalmed bodies awaiting burial due to the surge of Covid-19 deaths on Jan. 14, 2021 in Los Angeles. The U.S. Coronavirus Response Might Be a Crime Against Humanity
The Trump administration callously dismissed the deaths of the most vulnerable, including minorities.
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The first Saudi citizen preparing to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine in the capital Riyadh on Dec. 16, 2000, as part of a vaccination campaign by the Saudi health ministry. America’s Vaccine Diplomacy Is AWOL in the Middle East
China and Russia are spreading their vaccines—and forging new ties—to some of Washington’s closest allies.
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A Chinese laborer works at a construction site on reclaimed land, part of a Chinese-funded project for Port City, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 24, 2020. Coronavirus Hasn’t Killed Belt and Road
As the pandemic rages, China’s strategy is becoming more high-tech and sophisticated.
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A paramedic holds a blood sample Cheap Mass Testing Is Vital for Pandemic Victory
Switching from expensive, slow PCR tests to self-administered antigen tests could work wonders.
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A dog sits in the window of a local convenience store in Beijing on Dec. 16. The Pandemic Remade the Chinese Economy
Other countries should prepare now for their own reformations.
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coronavirus-vaccine-predictions-2021-foreign-policy-global-thinkers-brian-stauffer-illustration The World After the Coronavirus
We asked 12 leading thinkers to predict what happens in 2021 and beyond.
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A nurse prepares to inject a health care worker with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Tor Vergata hospital in Rome on Dec. 28. At State Department, Some Concerned That Political Appointees Are Jumping the Line to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Lack of communication over surplus doses has prompted suspicion and anger.
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Election judge Bonnie Carr looks over ballots as she prepares them to be counted at the Denver Elections Division Building in Denver on Nov 3. Our Top Arguments of 2020
From the pandemic to Black Lives Matter and the U.S. election, five articles from the year that changed everything.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Boris Johnson’s Year From Hell
Britain’s prime minister promised to take back control. When it comes to the coronavirus, he has lost it.
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Supporters and employees of Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN protest against government attacks on press freedom, in Manila on Feb. 21, 2020. How Press Freedom Came Under Attack in 2020
Citizens hungry for information turned to the media during the pandemic, but governments around the world used the crisis to restrict journalists.
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The rooms at the Grand Hotel in Taipei are illuminated to form the word "zero" after Taiwan reported no new coronavirus cases for two consecutive days, on April 17. East Asia Takes a Cautious Coronavirus Victory Lap
Here are five of our best pieces on how East Asia handled the pandemic.