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Chinese sanitation worker rests on roadside

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East Asia responses offer mixed lessons

Published May 13, 2020

How COVID-19 has been handled in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Japan are a reflection of key capabilities in some countries, erosion of civil liberties in others

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Nurses leading global COVID-19 response

Published May 13, 2020

Patricia Davidson discusses how the pandemic is highlighting work that nurses do during crisis situations and beyond

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How COVID-19 affects adolescents

Published May 11, 2020

Faculty experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health discuss the challenges faced by adolescents during the coronavirus pandemic

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Disinformation during a pandemic

Published May 8, 2020

Thomas Rid, SAIS faculty expert on cybersecurity and disinformation, discusses the efforts by foreign countries to influence the public's understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic

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The impact of COVID-19 on older adults

Published May 5, 2020

COVID-19 poses a risk not only to the health of older adults who contract the disease but also to those without the health care resources and social structures that contribute to overall wellness

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How school closures for COVID-19 amplify inequality

Published May 4, 2020

Annette Anderson, an expert in educational equity at the School of Education, discusses the unequal impact of COVID-19's disruption to public schooling

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Saving lives while protecting freedoms in the age of COVID-19

Published May 4, 2020

Political science scholars Yascha Mounk, Robert Lieberman, and Danielle Allen discuss the complexities of balancing public health and civil liberties in the midst of a pandemic

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The long road to herd immunity

Published April 30, 2020

Achieving herd protection can stop the spread of an infectious disease within a population, but as Bloomberg School experts explain, the U.S. is nowhere near that point with SARS-CoV-2, and getting there could prove difficult