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Birgit Poopuu, Elisabeth Schweiger and Elena Simon Why did the protective masks run out in two months? But rockets and bombs [...]

Emma Craddock We are living in what has been described as ‘humanity’s darkest hour’ by the managing director of the International [...]

Joe Whelan For a virus which was only being whispered about a few short months ago, COV, SARS 2, COVID 19, [...]

Dogus Simsek “We might not die due to the virus, but we might lose our lives from hunger, poverty, lack of [...]

Eva Illouz This article was first published in Le Nouvel Observateur and Sueddeutsche Zeitung 23/03/2020 and in Haartz ‘Weekend’ 02/04/2020 In Lars [...]

Nicola De Martini Ugolotti In a recent interview, the virologist Ilaria Capua argued that epidemics are social rather than merely biological [...]

James Flexner I am an archaeologist who studies the long-term histories of small island societies in the Pacific region, with most [...]

Aidan O’Sullivan On the 26th of March and again on the 2nd of April across the nation, millions in the UK [...]

Mark Carrigan In common with over a third of the world’s population, I have spent the last week confined to my [...]

En-Chieh Chao I call this pandemic a plague but not COVID-19 or any other names that aims to politicize it or [...]