Editorial, Opinion Pieces Discuss Various Aspects Of COVID-19 Pandemic, Response, Including Challenges Of Accessing Medical Supplies, Drugs

Bloomberg: The U.S. Can’t Defeat Coronavirus Alone
Editorial Board (5/19).

Devex: Opinion: What does it take to stock a nation with medical supplies?
Grete Faremo, undersecretary general and executive director of UNOPS (5/19).

Devex: Opinion: We cannot underestimate young people in the COVID-19 response
Perry Maddox, CEO of Restless Development (5/19).

Foreign Affairs: Drugs and Vaccines Are Coming — But to Whom?
Jennifer Hillman, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of practice at the Georgetown University Law Center (5/19).

Foreign Affairs: Sweden’s Coronavirus Strategy Should Not Be the World’s
Josh Michaud, associate director for global health policy at KFF and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (5/20).

Foreign Policy: In the Post-Pandemic Cold War, America Is Losing Europe
Noah Barkin, senior visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund (5/19).

New York Times: A Sudden Coronavirus Surge Brought Out Singapore’s Dark Side
Megan K. Stack, author and journalist (5/20).

Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus and Policy Chaos
Holman W. Jenkins Jr., member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal (5/19).

Washington Post: The WHO has been more effective at fighting the coronavirus than Trump has. No wonder he hates it
Max Boot, columnist at the Washington Post, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and global affairs analyst for CNN (5/19).

Washington Post: Moderna’s claim of favorable results in its vaccine trial is an example of ‘publication by press release’
William Haseltine, founder of Harvard University’s cancer and HIV/AIDS research departments and chair and president of ACCESS Health International (5/19).

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