Opinion Pieces Discuss Various Aspects Of COVID-19 Pandemic, Response, Including Impacts On Economies, Health Care Workers

Bloomberg: Covid Fear Will Keep the World in a Slump
Peter R. Orszag, chief executive officer of financial advisory at Lazard and Bloomberg Opinion columnist (7/13).

New York Times: The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now
John M. Barry, professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (7/14).

New York Times: Trump Isn’t the Worst Pandemic President
Felipe Neto, Brazilian YouTube personality (7/15).

Project Syndicate: Still No Care for Care Workers
Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates, and member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (7/14).

Project Syndicate: The Politics of a COVID-19 Vaccine
Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations (7/14).

Wall Street Journal: Letter to the Editor: Taxpayer Money Helped to Make Remdesivir
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee (7/14).

Washington Post: We ran the CDC. No president ever politicized its science the way Trump has
Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, David Satcher, all former directors of the CDC, and Richard Besser, former acting director of the CDC (7/14).

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