Pandemic Politics & Policy (To Sort)

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To prevent economic collapse amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the government unleashed the power it always had. New programs caused hunger, evictions, and child poverty to plummet. Why not just continue them? Because employers thrive on desperation.

Nature - The country needs to control the virus until it has boosted vaccination rates in elderly people and reinforced the health-care system.

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

Trying to ‘let it rip’ in early 2020 was a disaster.

AbstractBackground. The Nordic countries represent a unique case study for the COVID-19 pandemic due to socioeconomic and cultural similarities, high-quali

Every time I post about vaccine science, the responses are swift and predictable: “Where was the evidence for the lockdowns and the masks?” The question carries the weight of genuine frustration. For…

Although the Nordic countries experienced relatively low pandemic excess mortality, the impact and timing of excess mortality differed substantially. These estimates-arguably the most accurate available for any region in capturing pandemic-related excess deaths-may inform future research and policy …

Lockdowns were widely adopted worldwide during the COVID 19 pandemic and have been hotly debated ever since. What lessons can be drawn for future pandemics?

Most of the world went into lockdowns in March 2020 response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but what has been the impact in those that didn't impose strict restrictions?

Conversations and debates about vaccine mandates will continue well into next year as policy-makers balance individual freedom and public well-being.

COVID-19 vaccine mandates have worked extraordinarily well at getting more Canadians vaccinated, but they are increasingly hard to justify — not because of protests or political pressure but because they’re a victim of their own success.

Vaccination policies have shifted dramatically during COVID-19 with the rapid emergence of population-wide vaccine mandates, domestic vaccine passports and differential restrictions based on vaccination status. While these policies have prompted ...

Turning the question of mandatory vaccination into a wedge issue "may rub people the wrong way," warned one bioethicist in an interview with Global News.

The need to do something to control the pandemic may have blinded well-meaning policymakers to the costs of the policy

“People inoculated against Covid-19 are just as likely to spread the delta variant of the virus to contacts in their household as those who haven’t had shots... according to a paper published Thursday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal.”

In last week’s newsletter on vaccine mandates, I implored you all to think. Many of you rose to the occasion with insightful feedback.

A new study has been published that evaluates the benefits of VMVP by estimating the benefits of vaccination and exclusion of unvaccinated people from different settings.

The comments come as an increasing number of governments are considering, or planning to introduce, compulsory vaccinations.

Some argue COVID-19 vaccine mandates are human rights violations. Not really, say experts. Find out what's going on around the world on vaccine mandates.

Provinces across the country are starting to lift their restrictions and this is how some of the hardest hit ones are faring.

In response to a poll by Research Co., 37 per cent of Canadians reported they were infected themselves, or someone in their household was infected after restrictions lifted.

The decision, after weeks of foot-dragging and citing numbers that weren’t backed up, was the latest in a string of moves that give comfort to the anti-vaccine community.

Six good reasons to rethink vaccine certificates

Once, people were asking to be exempted from measures that kept the public safe. Now the reverse is happening.

In the heated debate over vaccine mandates, science and logic have often been lost amid politics and fear.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden