In an unprecedented time, the NCBE chose to protect its monopoly position in providing bar examination products rather than the 2020 bar applicants upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its claim to protect the public from the licensing of "incompetent" bar applicants rings hollow. Because the ...
Anti-intellectualism (the generalized distrust of experts and intellectuals) is an important concept in explaining the public’s engagement with advice from scientists and experts. We ask whether it has shaped the mass public’s response to coronavirus d
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The EBRD committed to helping efforts to combat the pandemic’s economic impact and prepare for recovery in the economies where we invest. The EBRD was the first International Financial Institution to approve a comprehensive series of response and recovery measures in its Solidarity Package, unveiled ...
Northwestern University professor Galya Ben-Arieh led a project examining global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team found that governments in various countries often bypassed privacy issues and health care provisions.
Key issues include how the urban food system before the pandemic and the food security governance structures and policy frameworks responded to the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 crisis; whether new strategies and initiatives were developed in response to the pandemic; and how effective these ...
We are living through extraordinary times as the United States has struggled to deal with the global COVID-19 pandemic, and as of the writing of this paper, wedoi:10.2139/ssrn.3666461Barr, Michael S.Jackson, Howell E.Tahyar, Margaret E....
As the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet subsided, the CGTN Think Tank has released the Analytical Report on the Global Situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic (the "Report") by sourcing data from the Johns Hopkins University website, Our World in Data ...
On 8 January 2023, after 3 years of pandemic control, China changed its management of COVID-19, applying measures against class B infectious diseases instead of Class A infectious diseases. This signaled the end of the dynamic zero-COVID policy and the reopening of the country. With a popula...
Examining the genomes of patients who have a severe response to COVID-19 will help identify crucial immune-related variants (see 'Investigations into host response to COVID-19'). However, asymptomatic people, the ideal control group for comparison, are extremely difficult to find. Until testing ...