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Special Edition: COVID-19 Lessons from South Korea

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

On this special edition Deep Dish episode, The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon reports from Seoul on South Korea’s approaches to containing COVID-19.

Volunteers in protective suits line up to be disinfected
Reuters
Global Health

The Plague You've Never Heard About Could be as Destructive as COVID-19

BLOG
Global Food for Thought by Coauthors

Tens of millions of people in East Africa, the Horn, and up through the Middle East are facing the prospect of extreme hunger as a plague of locusts spreads in the region.

A farmer holds a sorghum plant destroyed after a swarm of locusts invaded his farm in Ethiopia
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

Coronavirus Exposes Midwest's Economic Perch; Well-Paying Jobs Are Cure

In the News
Bridge Michigan
John Austin

Across the Midwest, the virus is revealing the always tenuous hold on a decent income for many.

Buildings seen in Detroit, Michigan.
Alex Brisbey
Global Cities

Viral Inequality

In the News
Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah

Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a range of toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.

Dominick Walton, who is homeless herself, serves food to homeless people amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Houston, Texas, U.S
Reuters
Inclusion and Equity

The Gendered Consequences of Coronavirus

In the News
E-International Relations
Coauthors

How are men and women experiencing the effects of the coronavirus differently? Why is it important to understand these differences?

A woman wearing a mask with her child strapped to her chest.
Marcin Jozwiak
Women and Girls

What the US Can Learn from the Global Responses to COVID-19

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

POLITICO’s Ryan Heath joins Deep Dish to explains the lessons the United States can learn from countries around that world in the effort to contain COVID-19.

Colorful double exposure of US Coronavirus COVID-19 cases
Brian McGowan
Global Health

Global Publics Respond to Increase in COVID-19 Restrictions

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

Governments around the world impose increasing restrictions upon their citizens’ daily lives as the number of active infections surges worldwide. How are global publics reacting?

A man in PPE stands in an empty airport
Govind Krishnan
Public Opinion

Global Public Opinion on Continued COVID-19 Response

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

Council experts analyze global public opinion after the WHO officially declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic.

A social distance marker on the ground in London
Chloe Evans
Global Health

The COVID Wake-Up Call

In the News
Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah

If the international community does not respond to the coronavirus pandemic by creating new global structures to deal with such outbreaks in the future, it will be guilty of criminal neglect.

Coronavirus cases in the United States mapped out. Global Health

How Cities Around the World Are Handling COVID-19

In the News
World Economic Forum
Robert Muggah

It is not just cities, but also their local and global supply chains, travel networks, airports and specific neighborhoods that are sources of contagion.

Paris coronavirus. Man wearing a mask walking in front of the Eiffel Tower on the first day of Paris lock-down.
Fran Boloni
Global Cities