How co-ordination at home can help the global fight against COVID-19: The urgency of tackling COVID-19 has led governments in many countries to launch a number of short-notice and fast-tracked initiatives (e.g. calls for research proposals). Without proper co-ordination amongst ministries and agencies, they run the risk of duplicating efforts or missing opportunities, resulting in slower progress and economic inefficiencies.

Covid-19 has exposed the limits of 'fact-denying populism', Merkel tells European Parliament: “The depth of the economic decline demands that we hurry,” Merkel told lawmakers. “We must waste no time - only the weakest would suffer from that. I very much hope that we can reach an agreement this summer. That will require a lot of readiness to compromise from all sides - and from you too."

A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them. So far we have documented 25 individual, significant automated contact tracing efforts globally, including details on what they are, how they work, and what policies and processes have been put in place around them.

Climate change

Coronavirus and climate change: How to deal with converging crises: What will happen, for example, when an extreme weather event happens in the middle of a pandemic? Then the virus will really hit the fan. And it’s only a matter of time.

Global Warming. Inequality. Covid-19. And Al Gore Is ... Optimistic? As vice president, he looked for big policy answers to hard global problems. Now he says all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions.

Is Your Business Ready for the 'Second Wave'? Lessons from the Chinese AI Industry's Fight Against COVID-1

How did WHO get here?

Pandemic failure or convenient scapegoat: How did WHO get here? Even critics of the WHO - from the red-baiting congressmen who nevertheless voted for it in 1948, to Reagan in the 1980s, to the many experts today who share concerns about future pandemics - ultimately acknowledge that if something like WHO did not exist, the world would have to invent it. What its inventors choose to do with it is the question.

Pandemic & money in health care

Health care after the pandemic: The pandemic is likely going to change where money gets invested in health care forever.