Blog Posts, Releases Discuss Various Aspects Of COVID-19 Pandemic, Including Lessons For Improving Pandemic Preparedness, Role Of Security Forces In Response Efforts, Investments In Mental Health

Council on Foreign Relations: Improving Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons From COVID-19
Thomas J. Bollyky, senior fellow for global health, economics, and development and director of the Global Health Program at CFR, and Stewart M. Patrick, James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance and director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at CFR (October 2020).

CSIS: Providers or Enforcers? The Duality of Security Forces’ Roles in Covid-19 Response Efforts
Melissa Dalton, senior fellow and deputy director for the International Security Program and director for the Cooperative Defense Project at CSIS (10/7).

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: Regeneron REGN-COV2 monoclonal antibody reported better in (non-hospitalized) patients who lack their own antibodies to SARS-CoV-2
Daniel R. Lucey, infectious diseases physician and adjunct professor of infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center, senior scholar at the Georgetown University O’Neill Institute, anthropology research associate at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Global Health Committee (10/8).

Think Global Health: The Virus Inside the White House
Samantha Kiernan, research associate on global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Terrence Mullan, assistant director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at CFR (10/9).

World Bank: Let’s Invest in Mental Health for an Inclusive and Resilient Recovery from COVID-19
Patricio V. Marquez, senior associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (10/8).

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