As threats to health security become an ever more important issue for Pacific nations, Australia and the United States have an opportunity to build partnerships by combining their considerable military health capabilities. But in planning …
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Unprecedented events such as pandemics and natural disasters frequently provoke national introspection, leading to innovative plans and policies that adapt to new circumstances and update capacities. In Fiji, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the unpreparedness, …
In mid-September, Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan reinstated a partial lockdown in a bid to prevent the Indonesian capital’s hospitals from being overwhelmed. With nearly 12,000 active cases of Covid-19 in the city, ICU beds were …
In my previous post, I noted that there seemed to be no appreciable difference in fatality rates for US states that instituted lockdowns early or late, or among European countries whose social-distancing and lockdown measures …
South Korea experienced one of the world’s largest initial outbreaks of Covid-19 outside China. But, unlike the United States and many European countries, we have been able to contain and drastically reduce the spread of …