The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #27
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
The searchable archive (5100 items).
The unabridged Part 27 (435 items) of the Reading List.
The podcasts.
The main weekly editions.
Public Health
The many coronavirus models, and their limitations, explained
Brian Resnick | Vox
The Staggeringly Complicated Ethics of Ventilating Coronavirus Patients
Lindsay Beyerstein | The New Republic
Leading with the Unknowns in COVID-19 Models
Jessica Hullman | Scientific American
Covid-19 'immunity certificates': practical and ethical conundrums
Aaron S. Kesselheim | STAT
Accounting for the Variation in the Confirmed Covid-19 Caseload across England
Josh Holden, Peter Kenway | New Policy Institute
Future
On China’s ‘Color Codes’ and Life After COVID-19
Cai Yineng | Sixth Tone
A Future Filled With Pathogens
Dahr Jamail | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
The post-pandemic economy
Dean Baker | Real-World Economics Review Blog
Vorsicht vor viralen Ermächtigungsgesetzen [German]
Jan-Werner Müller | Der Standard
Sassoon: "Nulla sarà come prima e l'Europa è al bivio tra più integrazione o disintegrazione" [Italian]
Umberto De Giovannangeli | Globalist
Lições do coronavírus para a sociedade do futuro [Portuguese]
Pedro Rossi | Nexo Jornal
Economic Polciy
Options for an immediate employment and social-policy response to COVID-19
Stefano Scarpetta et al. | VOX EU
The coronavirus has exposed decades of underinvestment in basic services
Michael A. Cohen | The Boston Globe
As the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains, who will feed China?
Cary Huang | This Week in Asia
‘Corona bonds’ and Europe’s north-south divide
Adam Tooze | Social Europe
« L’urgence absolue est de prendre la mesure de la crise en cours et de tout faire pour éviter le pire » [French]
Thomas Piketty | Le Monde
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Academic
Blueprint for a Pop-up SARS-CoV-2 Testing Lab
Jennifer A. Doudna | Innovative Genomics Institute
Whose life to save? Scarce resources allocation in the COVID-19 outbreak
Chiara Mannelli | Journal of Medical Ethics
SARS-CoV-2 infection in Health Care Workers in a large public hospital in Madrid, Spain, during March 2020
Maria Dolores Folgueira et al. | medRxiv
International
Modi’s India Isn’t Prepared for the Coronavirus
Kapil Komireddi | Foreign Policy
Inside America’s Two-Decade Failure to Prepare for Coronavirus
Dan Diamond | Politico
Trump, China, and the Geopolitics of a Crisis [Video]
Stephen A. Kotkin | Hoover Institution
The French doctors who wanted to test vaccines on Africans and Western medicine’s dark history
Musa Okwonga | Quartz
Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso - no to police brutality
Tafadzwa Choto | Review of African Political Economy
Rafael Poch: "En esta crisis por primera vez nadie espera que las soluciones vengan de Estados Unidos" [Spanish]
Arturo Puente | El Diario
L’Europa e il cappio al collo: come la mafia [Italian]
Alessandro Somma | MicroMega
Худшее впереди? Что думают россияне о последствиях пандемии [Russian]
Павел Степанцов | Нож
Public Sphere
Questions about the current pandemic from the point of view of Ivan Illich
David Cayley | Quodlibet
How Not to Tackle COVID-19: Butler’s Anticapitalism
Roger Lancaster | Nonsite
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Powerful Lessons for a Stronger Post-Coronavirus America
Florina Rodov | Yes Magazine
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed fissures within religions
The Economist
The American Exception
Zadie Smith | The New Yorker
Le malade numérique [French]
Paul B. Preciado | Libération
Wendy Brown : « Les frontières ne sont pas des gestes-barrières » [French]
Rosa Schwartzburg | AOC Media
“Invocando di vivere, scopro che cerco di morire”. Giorgio Agamben e la pandemia » [Italian]
Francescomaria Tedesco | Il Rasoio di Occam
Context
Legal Implications of COVID-19 in Italy [Video]
Catherine Altobelli, Nikolaus Forgó | University of Vienna
Expected impact of lockdown in Île-de-France and possible exit strategies [pdf]
Laura Di Domenico et al. | EPIcx lab
La salute in tempi di emergenza e in tempi di normalità [Italian]
Chiara Giorgi | L'Antivirus
Do Einstein para o SUS: a rota letal da covid-19 [Portuguese]
Amanda Rossi | Revista Piauí
Democracy
Thinking of reporting someone’s lockdown behaviour? Think again
Matt Burgess | WIRED UK
Will This Public Health Crisis Lead to a Voting Rights Crisis?
Bill Moyers | Truthout
UK government using confidential patient data in coronavirus response
Paul Lewis et al. | The Guardian
"Wir leben in einem quasi grundrechtsfreien Zustand" [German]
Nina Breher et al. | Der Tagesspiegel
Social Toll
Health Care in Crisis: COVID-19 Exposes Deadly Inequalities
Dale Willman | State of the Planet
Thanks to COVID-19, Trump Has Achieved His Goal of Abolishing Asylum
Bill Ong Hing | Slate
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps [Podcast]
Claudia Hammond | The Science Hour
Covid-19 ameaça idosos e doentes crônicos nas favelas e periferias do Rio [Portuguese]
Breno Henrique | TAB
Féminisme, justice pénale, coronavirus et révoltes dans les prisons - Entretien avec Gwenola Ricordeau [French]
Lundi matin
Tech
Global information governance in pandemic times
Michael Riegner | Völkerrechtsblog
We Can’t Let Tech Companies Use This Crisis to Expand Their Power
JS Tan | Jacobin
Italy looks to tech to limit the spread of the coronavirus
Cecilia Butini | Coda Story
Meet humanity's new ally in the coronavirus fight: robots
Amina Khan | Los Angeles Times
Coronavirus: Surge in health surveillance apps in India, concern among privacy advocates
Rohini Mohan | The Straits Times
Class & Labour
‘The Gig Economy Is Really Just Pushing People Into Precarious Work’
Janine Jackson | FAIR
The coronavirus crisis has been great for Instacart. For its workers, it's a different story
Johana Bhuiyan | Los Angeles Times
Scioperare nella pandemia [Italian]
Joshua Freeman | Jacobin Italia
O mundo do trabalho durante e depois do Covid-19 [Podcast - Portuguese]
Ericson Crivelli, Clemente Ganz Lúcio | Justificando
Capitalism
Human Rights and Neoliberalism in a Time of Pandemic: A Reply
Jessica Whyte | Legal Form
Das Neue ist längst da [German]
Georg Diez | Die Zeit
Domenico Moro: non basta Keynes, ci vuole Marx [Italian]
Alessandro Bartoloni | La Città futura
A pandemia e o capitalismo numérico [Portuguese]
José Gil | Público
Anthropocene
How COVID-19 Took Hold and Why We Must End the Wildlife Trade
Steve Trent | The Revelator
Nature is bouncing back during the coronavirus crisis—but for how long?
Jonathan Watts | Mother Jones
Frédéric Le Marcis, professeur d'anthropologie : "Notre capacité à maîtriser le vivant est très fragile" [French]
Guillaume Lamy | Lyon Capitale
"Il corpo della terra. La relazione negata. Da una visione egologica a una visione ecologica" [Italian]
Giusy Mantione, Eugenia Romanelli | Letture