In this week’s round-up of coronavirus articles by scholars around the globe, we explore the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 and the latest on drug trials.
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Shortages and price increases from the coronavirus pandemic are spotlighting solutions to future meat supply chain disruptions.
Cuba’s sustainable approach to farming has protected its rivers from the kind of nutrient pollution that impairs many US waterways.
Tumbling global trade with China proves no country or sector is an island.
Over the first 100 days of the pandemic, countries that quickly implemented strong policies successfully lowered their death rates faster. There were also some surprises in the successes and failures.
While trust in media has risen in both the US and Australia, a sharp partisan divide is apparent in Americans’ trust in media.
The US and its allies are demanding answers over how COVID-19 became a pandemic. But instead of pointing fingers at China, the inquiry should focus on scientific clues to help us thwart future disasters.
Both countries could dial back the rhetoric against one another. But neither Donald Trump nor Xi Jinping has much to gain domestically in doing so.
While some authoritarian governments have won early praise, research shows that democratic countries with a balance of power between central and regional bodies are best able to succeed.
Politicians should have acted faster and more decisively, survey data from four countries show.
Cuban medicine is now called upon both to protect the island’s population from Covid-19 and to help various foreign countries, including Italy and France.
Ccoronavirus has put emergency responders and resources under extreme pressure all over the world just as the hurricane season approaches.
Preliminary results from a US trial show remdesivir may help in treating COVID-19. But the findings haven’t been peer-reviewed, and the results from other clinical trials have shown little effect.
African countries should draw from past experience to put together plans to manage the post-COVID-19 tourism void
The world rightly expressed shock and dismay at Donald Trump’s suspension of US funding for WHO. To respond, other governments, funders and citizens are urgently needed to fill the gap.
With healthcare facilities burned by the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries have eased access to the “abortion pills” mifepristone and misoprostol (RU-486), a change that could signal a long-term shift.
Populist leaders can be a liability. Their optimistic bias and complacency, ambiguity, and ignorance of science undermine crisis management and put all at risk.
While testing is central to the fight against COVID-19, there are a myriad of factors to consider, especially by African countries, when taking decisions to curtail the spread of the disease.
The federal government has declared a state of emergency over COVID-19. Two public health scholars explain what that means.
Already, we have seen a range of responses globally - from countries that apparently reacted too late, to those who acted relatively early.
Principales colaboradores
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Tony Walker es Amigo de The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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Rédacteur en chef, coordination internationale et technique, The Conversation France
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Global Fellow at the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, University of Arizona
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
