Anni Kangas and Zarnigor Omonillaeva About one thousand Central Asian citizens were stranded at Moscow’s international airports, in mid-March, as states [...]
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Who Cares? COVID-19 and young carers
Matt Woodhead ‘Don’t stay hidden, you don’t have to do it alone’ There are an estimated 700,000 young people in the UK [...]
Read moreWas a mobilized society key to China’s coronavirus response?
Sophia Woodman International media coverage of China’s coronavirus lockdown has frequently characterized its effectiveness in combatting the spread of the disease [...]
Read moreDebt and more debt: The cost of the response to Covid-19 in Argentina
Matt Barlow In Argentina, the economic and social lockdown as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic was implemented with speed and [...]
Read more‘Clap for Carers’: The Limits of Gratitude and Sustaining Emotional Support for Healthcare Workers
Stephanie Parsons Healthcare roles, especially nursing, have long been established as requiring extensive amounts of emotion work. This type of work [...]
Read moreThe Social Determinants of Covid 19 and BAME disproportionality
Nasar Meer, Kaveri Qureshi, Ben Kasstan and Sarah Hill In April 2020, NHS England and Public Health England launched an inquiry [...]
Read moreDriving home ‘single-use’: plastic politics in the times of the COVID-19
Tridibesh Dey and Mike Michael “As coronavirus bears down on society, single use plastic steps up in an unprecedented way”, argued [...]
Read moreIt’s time to implement a basic income floor
Stewart Lansley With livelihoods shattered and household incomes heading for unprecedented falls, attention needs to turn towards the vital question of [...]
Read moreParks in a pandemic: a glimpse into the future?
Anna Barker and Andrew Smith One of the more surprising aspects of the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK has been the [...]
Read moreCovid-19: asymptomatic infection and the question of face masks for how we live this pandemic
Marsha Rosengarten, Kari Lancaster, and Tim Rhodes Unlike any other potentially deadly viral infection, Covid-19 has required a contraction of living on [...]
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