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Africa: Invest in Local Manufacturing of COVID-19 Vaccines urges African governments to allocate more resources into making their own Covid-19 vaccines instead of relying on donations from wealthier nations, September 2021 |
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In Making Vaccines Available to Other Countries Before Offering Domestic Booster Vaccinations G. Owen Schaefer, R. J. Leland, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel argue that COVID vaccine doses should be distributed to other countries currently lacking access, before beginning booster campaigns in wealthier nations, August 2021 |
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In Sharing Technology and Vaccine Doses to Address Global Vaccine Inequity and End the COVID-19 Pandemic Matthew Kavanagh, Larry Gostin, and Madhavi Sunder discuss unequal vaccine distribution across the globe and the importance of sharing technology and knowledge to increase vaccination rates, July 1, 2021 |
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In this March 23, 2021, JAMA Health Forum article, Unequal Access to COVID-19 Vaccines Leaves Less-Wealthy Countries More Vulnerable, Poses Threat to Global Immunity, Joan Stephenson examines how the unequal access to vaccines across the world threatens not only low-income nations but also global immunity and our ability to end the COVID-19 pandemic |
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Kai Kupferschmidt predicts that nationalism and national self-interest will interfere with COVID vaccine rollouts in Vaccine Nationalism Threatens Global Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Shots Fairly, in Science, July 28, 2021 |
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In Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in Low-Income Countries, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic, and Jeffrey D. Michler examine the negative impact of COVID-19 on the economies and people of several low-income African nations, March 30, 2021 |
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This May 25, 2021, Nature editorial, A Patent Waiver on COVID Vaccines is Right and Fair, argues that waiving patents for COVID-19 vaccines is necessary to create equitable access and care during the pandemic |
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Achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 at the country level by the exit strategy of a phased lift of control sketches considerations involved in intentionally allowing herd immunity to develop through natural infection by embracing “a phased lift of control”—i.e., lifting restrictions in part of a country, while maintaining strict restrictions in the remaining parts awaiting their turn to “open up”—to ensure that the capacity of the healthcare system as a whole is not outstripped by demand, in nature.com/scientificreports, February 2021 |
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Lockdowns and low- and middle-income countries [LMICs]: [discusses] building a feasible, effective, and ethical COVID-19 response strategy that LMICs could adopt to implement responsible lockdown entrance/exit or to avoid re-imposing coercive restrictive lockdown measures altogether, given the long wait for vaccines that LMICs face, in Global Health, January 2021 |
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African nations have particular advantages and challenges in addressing COVID-19:
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New Zealand has sought to eliminate the virus within its borders
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A Tale of Two Cities: Seattle And New York’s Response To The Pandemic, a 12 minute, April 27, 2020 segment of 1A, explores the view of former CDC director Tom Frieden that if New York had learned from Seattle’s experience and implemented stay-at-home orders “ten days earlier than it did, it might have reduced COVID-19 deaths by 50 to 80 percent” |
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Boris Johnson and COVID-19: A Timeline, Medscape News UK, April 7, 2020 |
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Covid-19 and the Stiff Upper Lip — The Pandemic Response in the United Kingdom, NEJM, March 20, 2020 |
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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally — The U.S. Response to Covid-19—a policy analysis of state and federal policies, including stay-at-home orders and federal funding initiatives, by Rebecca L. Haffajee and recent Pitt visitor Michelle M. Mello, NEJM, April 1, 2020 |
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The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan, China: Challenges for Global Health Governance |
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Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? by Bill Gates in the NEJM |
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COVID-19 and the Global Ethics Freefall from The Hastings Center’s Sridhar Venkatapuram |
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Quarantined Italians’ messages to their earlier (10 days ago) selves and, by extension, to the rest of the world |
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Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus from Harvard Business Review writers applying management decisionmaking, in retrospect, to Italy’s response, March 27, 2020 |
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Why Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Far Lower Than In Other Countries, NPR, March 25, 2020 |