Mark Rhinard News Today

On Cape Cod in Massachusetts, they’re expecting a record-breaking summer season as tourists freed from pandemic restrictions look to have some fun. But across the Atlantic, in Rome, Gini Ansuini, who owns a 480-year-old deli, cannot tell how long it will take to get over the 80% falloff in business that he has suffered. Why We Wrote This As they begin to emerge from the pandemic, Europe and the U.S. find themselves in different places with different priorities that reflect their values and hi...

URL copied to clipboard In January 2020, the severity of the coronavirus outbreak caught most people by surprise. Public attention was glued to terrorism. While the health risk to individuals received immediate attention, it took time for the media and authorities to recognise the wider societal consequences of the pandemic, including its impact on the health system. As Luka Biong Deng Kuol writes in a recent PRIO blog post on African responses: COVID-19 has exposed serious cracks in system...