June 24, 2020
The COVID-19 Crisis: An Opportunity To Build A Fairer, Healthier Nation
Health Affairs
Well-being and mental health amid COVID-19: Differences in resilience across minorities and whites

Carol Graham, Yung Chun, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, and Stephen Roll examine COVID-19's effects on mental health and well-being across racial groups.
Brookings
Trump promised to pay for Covid care. But patients with long-term symptoms see huge bills.

Doctors are discovering life-threatening and costly long-term health effects ranging from kidney failure to heart and lung damage.
Politico
Tocilizumab in patients with severe COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study
The Lancet
Conservationists warn Covid waste may result in ‘more masks than jellyfish’ in the sea

CNN
The Big Bad Wolf moves south: How COVID-19 affects higher education financing in developing countries

We observed how privately and publicly funded systems, especially those that rely heavily on fees from international students, have come under pressure due to the coronavirus. Is the crisis playing out in a similar way in developing countries?
World Bank
What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths?
New York Times
What’s behind the surge of Covid-19 cases in Florida

CNN
Ontario to allow some COVID-19 positive employees into workplaces
Reuters
U.S. senators question meatpackers over exports to China during pandemic
Reuters
Migrant workers need support, jobs at home after pandemic disruption: ILO
Reuters
New Google default wipes users' location, web history after 18 months
Reuters
Latin America's COVID-19 deaths seen hitting nearly 390,000 by October
Reuters
The D.C. National Guard Will Send Unarmed Troops To Help Guard Monuments

The guardsmen are currently on standby at the National Guard Armory.
DCist
seattles-chop-shrinking-but-demonstrators-remain
Seattle Times
On different planets: how Germany tackled the pandemic, and Britain flailed

From health spending to test and trace, the German response to coronavirus has many lessons for the UK, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
The Guardian
Going to School Amid a Pandemic
US News
What will post-pandemic jobs look like?
The Hill
Survey: Women Are Rethinking Having Kids As They Face Pandemic Challenges

A survey from the Guttmacher Institute finds that roughly one-third of women say they plan to delay having children, or have fewer, even as they are experiencing difficulty obtaining contraception.
NPR
Why some people can't resist crowds despite the pandemic

Blame evolution for our compulsion to socialize even with the risk of COVID-19.
National Geogrpahic
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Could Be Messing With Your Sleep

Your internal clock comes unsprung
Time
The Pandemic and the Limits of Realism

The foundational international relations theory has been revealed to be far less realistic than it claims.
Foreign Policy
How the pandemic changed social media and George Floyd’s death created a collective conscience

As Ofcom reports that internet use has surged to record levels in the UK, Pam Ramsden, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bradford, looks at the links between the pandemic, social media an…
LSE
Europe’s pandemic politics: How the virus has changed the public’s worldview

New research reveals that the crisis has revolutionised citizens’ perceptions of global order – scrambling the distinctions between nationalism and globalism…
ECFR
Timing is everything: how Canada got into a pandemic economy — and how it might get out

The pandemic is a real-time laboratory for testing the economic and political limits of government deficit spending in a crisis. One lesson learned so far is that the governments that stepped up quickly with big rescue packages have tended to be the ones keeping the damage done by job losses to a minimum.
CBC
Trump’s first foreign visitor amid pandemic is Poland’s nationalist president

CNN
DC protests roll on despite fencing, barricades

Protesters gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C., despite fencing and a line of guards placed at Lafayette Square.
WTOP
Angry residents erupt at meeting over new mask rule

CNN
‘Mass murder on a national scale’: New advert attacks Trump’s comments on virus testing
President said he’d asked officials to ‘slow down testing’ at rally on Saturday
The Independent
Trump administration says it will no longer directly run COVID-19 testing sites

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will no longer directly run virus testing sites.
ABC
COVID-19 antibodies may fade in as little as 2 months, study says

A new study suggests that antibodies may fade in as little as two months after infection in certain people who have recovered from the coronavirus.
ABC
Britain's Prince William visits Oxford COVID-19 vaccine developers
Reuters
Stop wearing face masks incorrectly
The Hill
Washington Makes Not Wearing a Face Mask a Misdemeanor Crime
Newsweek
Disney faces pushback on Walt Disney World reopening
Reuters
New York City retailers welcome back shoppers but challenges loom
Reuters









