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COVID-19: Urgent Call to Protect People and Nature
Humanity’s broken relationship with nature comes at a cost, revealed in terrible ways by the COVID-19 pandemic. Humans have increasingly encroached on the natural world, resulting in escalating contact with...
Essay: COVID-19: A Pandemic of Assassinated Assumptions: A Perfect Storm for Leaders
First published Dec. 14th 2020. Provocation The global pandemic was declared by the WHO on 11 March, signalling that COVID-19 had or was about to reach all shores. Since then,...
Forecasting Covid-19’s Course
Commentary by the CSIS Senior VP on the pandemic as a “history-altering event,” with no “V-shaped recovery for major economies.” Compares three scenarios based on a variety of variables: number...
Global Education Coalition
A platform for international multisectoral collaboration and exchange launched by UNESCO to protect the right to education. The Coalition was established to meet the urgent and unprecedented need for continuity...
Global Energy Review 2020: The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on global energy demand and CO2 emissions
A flagship report by the International Energy Agency in "response to the exceptional circumstances" its coverage includes real-time analysis of current developments. As usual, it looks into the "2019 energy...
How COVID-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective
“COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted.” New statistical records are being set on an almost weekly basis. The CCSA has compiled “a snapshot of some...
How Many Intensive Care Beds Will A Nuclear Weapon Explosion Require?
COVID has demonstrated what a serious crisis can do to the intensive care system. This is a threat assessment of the size of a threat and its probability posed by...
Nuclear Non-proliferation, Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Response Planning, Nuclear Security, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Peace
How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus
The magazine views the pandemic as “a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences…will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.” It...
IGC COVID-19 Guidance Note: Containment Strategies and Support for Vulnerable Households
The COVID-19 health crisis is an economic crisis. Limiting social interactions has also limited economic interactions. The collapse in economic activity undermines livelihoods and increases extreme poverty and hunger. “Policy...
INFORM Covid-19 Risk Index
An "experimental adaptation" of the annual INFORM Epidemic Risk Index in face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It surveys “countries at risk from health and humanitarian impacts of COVID-19 that...
Interim Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation and Distribution in the United States
The COVID-19 pandemic will continue for the foreseeable future, but widespread vaccination could hasten its end. “At least 165 candidate vaccines…are in development worldwide,” and there is hope that one...
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
A specialized website designed "to advance the understanding of the coronavirus, inform the public, and brief policymakers to guide response, improve care, and save lives", reflecting "an interdisciplinary collaboration between...
Lives and Livelihoods: Assessing the Near-Term Impact of COVID-19 on US Workers
As of March 30, three-quarters of Americans were living under state or local stay-at-home mandates or advisories, and the economic fallout has been swift and dramatic. “Up to one-third of...
Long COVID Alliance
A network of "patient advocates, scientists, disease experts, and drug developers have joined together to leverage their collective knowledge and resources to educate policymakers and accelerate research to transform our...
National Coronavirus Response: A Road Map to Reopening
Outlines “steps that can be taken as epidemic transmission is brought under control in different regions” Phase 1: Slow the Spread - Lists thresholds for action and 8 required steps:...
NIAID Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research, FY2020-FY2024
NIAID, part of the US National Institutes of Health, “is committed to safeguarding the health of Americans and people around the world by accelerating research efforts to prevent, diagnose, and...
Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres begins by stating that “We are at an inflection point in history,” with COVID-19 upending unending our world, threatening our health, destroying livelihoods, and deepening inequality. Six action...
Disinformation, Global Solidarity, Science Education, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects, Youth, Youth Leadership
Pandemic Resilience: Getting It Done: A TTSI Technical Handbook for States and Municipalities
A handbook by the 8-member Massachusetts Testing, Tracing, and Supported Isolation (MA TTSI) collaborative. TTSI seeks to enable a safe and free society by providing an end-to-end framework with scaled-up...
Pandemics—Lessons Looking Back from 2050
An idealistic scenario from 2050, looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus over the last three decades, where there is widening human awareness of how the planet...
Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition
Before the pandemic, >820 million people were identified as chronically food insecure, with 135 million people categorized as crisis level or worse. That number could nearly double by the end...