Carolyn Whelan
The images are heartbreaking, the statistics even worse. Though the US leads the world in total deaths from COVID-19, during wave one of the pandemic care homes were, in relative terms, the deadliest place to
Carolyn Whelan
“We needed a radically different approach,” says Kathryn Garcia, New York City’s Sanitation Commissioner and Food Czar, recalling how she and colleagues set about feeding the city’s vulnerable over the pandemic, adding that traditional soup
Carolyn Whelan
The relative success of a massive Argentine lockdown during the first few months of the pandemic has surprised many experts, with roughly 9,000 lost to Covid-19 as of late August in a population of 45
Carolyn Whelan
“Never before has so much of an EU budget been allocated to combating climate change,” declared Svenja Schulze, Germany’s Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on July 21st, after a five-day inter-governmental summit
Carolyn Whelan
As much of the world recovers from a first wave of COVID-19 infections, others are anticipating the next swells. Amid this pivot, they are looking to policy lessons from a handful of countries that handled
Carolyn Whelan
As Latin America and the Caribbean feel the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic, a handful of its 33 countries are showing how to beat a virus that is increasingly devastating to the rest. In Costa
Carolyn Whelan
At the peak of Covid-19 lockdowns globally, an estimated 1.5 billion children in 195 countries were out of school, either learning remotely or not at all. This almost certainly both damaged their education and reduced
Carolyn Whelan
As the economic shock of the pandemic has spread, policymakers around the world have found themselves trying to balance the short-term priority of rescuing their economies from pandemic-driven disaster with longer-term goals such as making