Government and the pandemic: structures and response
With the COVID-19 outbreak, humanity had to adapt to a new era. New laws, rules and measures have been adopted for a fast and...
18 August, 2021
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Red Cross in the COVID-19 pandemic – how Austria handled the outbreak
When the first Corona cases occurred on the 25th of February 2020, alarm bells rang in the republic of Austria – and the government...
02 August, 2021
One size does not fit all – information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic in a segregated society
Information seeking patterns may help to explain higher death tolls in COVID-19 in immigration dense areas in Sweden. Information gaps widens with language problems...
07 July, 2021
Timely, transparent, targeted? Government communications during the pandemic
Pandemics are nothing new, as Viktoria Adler and Diotima Bertel reminded us in this article. False and misleading information didn’t wait for the 21st...
20 June, 2021
What is the Pandemic Teaching? Vaccines in a changing economic and social context
From the history of pandemics, we inherit important lessons for today's society struggling to cope with COVID-19. First, it confirms that global pandemics can...
27 May, 2021
Joining forces in mitigating risks of the COVID-19 pandemic
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. In May 2020, as Europe was coming out of the initial shock...
07 May, 2021
Tackling COVID-19: collaboration for better results
The realisation that a year has passed since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe prompted many to think about the shortcomings of...
15 April, 2021
The COVAX Facility: the way forward to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines?
The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the globe is far from fair. High-income countries currently hold a confirmed 4.6 billion doses of vaccines, compared...
01 April, 2021
Red Cross in the COVID-19 pandemic – how Romania handled the outbreak
The first known case of COVID-19 in Romania was confirmed in Gorj County, on February 26, 2020. On March 12, the Romanian Ombudsman asked...
17 March, 2021
The COVINFORM team – supporting gender equality in EU Research and Innovation
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Gender matters in research, however, both in terms...
08 March, 2021