Editorial, Opinion Pieces Discuss Various Topics Related To COVID-19 Pandemic, Including Lockdowns, Vaccines, Science, Misinformation

Bloomberg: Covid-19 Lockdowns May Have Saved Kids’ Lives
Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (9/17).

Bloomberg: In Latin America, a Covid Vaccine Is No Panacea
Mac Margolis, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (9/17).

The Lancet: COVID-19: a stress test for trust in science
Editorial Board (9/19).

Project Syndicate: Fighting the COVID Infodemic
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of HIV and former president of the International AIDS Society, and Adeeba Kamarulzaman, dean of the faculty of medicine and professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Malaya and president of the International AIDS Society (9/18).

Scientific American: When Politics Distorts Science
Claudia Wallis, science journalist (9/17).

STAT: A vaccine alone won’t stop Covid-19. We also need a trusted plan for it
Luciana Borio, infectious disease physician, vice president at In-Q-Tel, and senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations; and Jesse L. Goodman, infectious disease physician, professor of medicine at Georgetown University, and director of its Center on Medical Product Access, Safety, and Stewardship (9/17).

Washington Post: What sets apart countries that successfully handled the pandemic? Failure.
Fareed Zakaria, foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and contributing editor for The Atlantic (9/17).

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