The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #22
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Public Health
Heart Damage in COVID Patients Puzzles Doctors
Markian Hawryluk | Scientific American
New York State Pays Up to 15 Times the Normal Prices for Medical Equipment
Lydia DePillis | Truthout
Right to Repair and Ventilators: Saving COVID-19 Patients
Jerri-Lynn Scofield | Naked Capitalism
Coronavirus exposes lack of common data approach
Elena Sánchez Nicolás | EUobserver
Corona: Die Szenarien des deutschen Innenministeriums [German]
Christoph Prantner | NZZ
Social Toll
Amid coronavirus pandemic, black mistrust of medicine looms
Aaron Morrison | PBS
Funeral Homes Overwhelmed With COVID-19 Cases
Greg Allen | NPR
Precarious lives: Syrian refugees in Turkey in corona times
Ayça Tekin-Koru | VOX EU
Il Coronavirus Non Ferma Le Bande Del Racket Delle Case Popolari [Italian]
Paolo Verri | Estreme Conseguenze
Tech
Coronavirus is Pushing Mass Surveillance in India, and It’s Going to Change Everything
Pallavi Pundir | VICE
Robots help China manage the coronavirus pandemic
Coco Liu, Michelle Chan | Nikkei Asian Review
YouTube to suppress content spreading coronavirus 5G conspiracy theory
Alex Hern | The Guardian
Future
"Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath"
Franco “Bifo” Berardi | e-flux
Manuel Castells: “Enfrentamos desunidos la más grave amenaza que ha tenido la humanidad” [Spanish]
Álex Rodríguez | La Vanguardia
Mundo pós-pandemia terá valores feministas no vocabulário comum, diz antropóloga Debora Diniz [Portuguese]
Úrsula Passos | Folha De S. Paulo
Perché dopo il coronavirus avremo bisogno di un piano per l’emergenza psichiatrica [Italian]
Costanza Jesurum | The Vision
Class & Labour
We may not all be equal in the eyes of coronavirus
Angus Deaton | Financial Times
Labour and social protection in times of COVID-19 [Video]
Valerio De Stefano | KU Leuven
Walter Scheidel: autor americano aponta potencial da covid-19 para reduzir desigualdade no mundo [Portuguese]
Época Negócios
Context
War, What Is It Good For? [Podcast]
Jeet Heer et al. | On the Media
A brief history of hotels in times of crisis
Kenneth Morrison | Al Jazeera
How SF battle with HIV/AIDS shaped today's coronavirus response
Ryan Kost | San Francisco Chronicle
Fenomenologia della mascherina [Italian]
Marco Fasoli | Doppiozero
Covid-19: comment le marché européen des équipements médicaux est devenu un “Far West” [French]
Elodie Guéguen | France Culture
Forschungsprojekt Coronarchiv: Historiker sammeln Erlebnisse aus der Corona-Krise [German]
Danny Kringiel | Der Speigel
Academic
Pandemics meet democracy. Experimental evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Spain
Francesc Amat et al. | University of Barcelona
Political Beliefs affect Compliance with COVID-19 Social Distancing Orders
Marcus Painter, Tian Qiu | working paper
A model society: maths, models and expertise in viral outbreaks
Tim Rhodes et al. | Critical Public Health
Economic Policy
Lessons From Wartime Economics
Daniel Susskind | The Atlantic
Debts and Deficits: What Are the Limits, and Why?
Gerald Epstein | The American Prospect
La renta básica deja de ser una utopía [Spanish]
Ignacio Fariza | El País
Streit über Coronabonds: Tausend Ökonomen gegen Merkel [German]
Ulrike Herrmann | Taz
International
The Arab world between a formidable virus and a repressive state
Layla Saleh | openDemocracy
Finland, ‘Prepper Nation of the Nordics,’ Isn’t Worried About Masks
Christina Anderson, Henrik Pryser Libell | New York Times
La gestión del coronavirus enfrenta a Erdogan con los ayuntamientos opositores [Spanish]
Andrés Mourenza | El País
O papel da China diante da crise do coronavírus [Portuguese]
Du Xiaojun et al. | Brasil de Fato
Le dilemme de l'Afrique subsaharienne face au Covid-19 [French]
Nicolas Jacquet | Le Vent Se Lève
Anthropocene
The Earth Is Telling Us We Must Rethink Our Growth Society
William E. Rees | The Tyee
Como tornar as cidades mais inteligentes diante das mudanças climáticas e pandemias? [Portuguese]
Lucas Rosse Caldas et al. | ArchDaily
Democracy
The Coronavirus: Biopolitics and the Rise of ‘Anthropocene Authoritarianism’
David Chandler | Russia in Global Affairs
Orbán et la droite européenne [French]
Jacques Rupnik | Esprit
Über Quarantänen, Oikonomia und das Clinamen [German]
Angela Mitropoulos | Non Copyriot
Public Sphere
Why pandemics are the perfect environment for conspiracy theories to flourish
Nicolas Guilhot | The Conversation
How Zombie Films Reveal the True Dangers of COVID-19
James Der Derian, Phillip Gara | Zócalo Public Square
El blackout de la crítica [Spanish]
Luciana Cadahia, Germán Cano | IECCS