Coronavirus

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• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  A Dark Pandemic Year Could Still Portend a Brighter Future

  foreignaffairs.com - Charles Kenny

  At last, the United States appears to be entering the recovery phase from the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects. A national vaccination …

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  What the WHO Investigation Reveals About the Origins of COVID-19

  foreignaffairs.com - Yanzhong Huang

  In January, World Health Organization–designated scientists departed for China to investigate the origins of COVID-19. After spending four weeks …

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  Moral Virtue in the Time of Cholera

  foreignaffairs.com - David Rosner

  In April, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became one of the first high-profile world leaders to contract the novel coronavirus. He was …

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  Our Plague Year

  foreignaffairs.com - Arnold Weinstein

  In the era of COVID-19, we are learning that scientific diagnosis is harder than we thought. Do we focus on symptoms? Do we use swabs or will a spit …

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  Can COVID-19 Change the Welfare State?

  foreignaffairs.com - Richard Sennett

  In Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, a woman known in the community only as Mrs. Mehta fell sick with COVID-19. Her outlook was not good: the social safety net …

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  Fighting a Pandemic Requires Trust

  foreignaffairs.com - Thomas J. Bollyky

  “Government exists to protect us from each other,” U.S. President Ronald Reagan once famously said, but goes “beyond its limits . . . in deciding to …

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  One Virus, Two Americas

  foreignaffairs.com - Ashish Jha

  The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every nation in the world, with results as variable as each government’s response. While some countries …

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  India’s Out-of-Control Pandemic

  foreignaffairs.com - T. Jacob John

  In August, India surpassed Brazil and the United States to earn the sad distinction of having the fastest-growing novel coronavirus caseload in the …

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  America Needs to Lock Down Again

  foreignaffairs.com - Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

  In our essay “Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold,” for the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, we described the struggle against COVID-19 in terms of …

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  An Asian Pandemic Success Story

  foreignaffairs.com - Swee Kheng Khor and David Heymann

  Just as a heart attack can jolt a person into changing habits for the better, a pandemic can spur a nation to profoundly improve its public health …

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  The Exceptional American Relationship to Public Health

  foreignaffairs.com - Joshua M. Sharfstein and Georges C. Benjamin

  In October 2019, a global study found the United States to be the best-prepared nation in the world for “high-consequence and globally catastrophic …

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  When the System Fails

  foreignaffairs.com - Stewart Patrick

  The chaotic global response to the coronavirus pandemic has tested the faith of even the most ardent internationalists. Most nations, including the …