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Eighteen million people in Latin America are domestic workers, 93% of whom are women. During Covid-19, they experimented with even higher vulnerable conditions and increasing demand for their services. While some organisations in the region promoted initiatives and campaigns, most of them still go through an evident lack of recognition and rights, as, Jorgelina Loza (CONICET and FLACSO, Argentina) depicts.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people across the world have been sheltering at home for several months, a shift which is sadly likely to mean a rise in domestic violence cases. After adjusting domestic violence call data for seasonal trends, Emily Leslie and Riley Wilson find that domestic violence increases by about ten percent compared to the same period in 2019 – an equivalent to nearly 1,400 additional cases across the US each day.

Several COVID-19 vaccines are now licensed, and the success of a rollout often depends on people’s willingness to accept any of them. Health workers are in a unique position to influence the public. Jan Priebe (German Institute for Global and Area Studies), Henning Silber, Christoph Beuthner, Steffen Pötzschke, Bernd Weiß, and Jessica Daikeler (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) show how their recommendations change when they are given different types of information about vaccines.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis, yet it has largely been managed by states acting independently. Arvind Ashta argues that in light of the pandemic, we should seriously consider the potential advantages of moving toward a world federal government. In a previous EUROPP article written during the first wave of the pandemic in Europe, ... Continued

In Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity, Jonathan Purkis argues that the nature of hitchhiking and its place in the world has important things to tell us both about who we are and who we might be. This hopeful book suggests that if we could harness the mutuality and generosity brought to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic into a political movement, we might find ourselves hitchhiking again, writes Tim Newburn. Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity. Jonathan Purkis. Manchester University Press. 2021.

The way multinational enterprises conduct themselves during periods of crisis, such as an epidemic, is of key importance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. A health crisis may alter the short-run incentives of some multinationals, encouraging rapacity towards natural resources. Tommaso Sonno and Davide Zufacchi explain that this is what happened in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic in 2014-15.

Yang Chen (UCL & LSE) and Bogdan Enache (LSE) are two clinicians on the frontline of the pandemic. They explain their concern that evidence-based medicine is being jettisoned in favour of guidelines drawn up on the basis of expert opinion and case series, and make the case for every COVID-19 patient to be offered the opportunity to join a randomised clinical trial.

In The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, Cassie Thornton explores the impact of COVID-19, neoliberalism and austerity politics on the US healthcare system, presenting ‘The Hologram’ as an alternative model of care based on solidarity, cooperation and interdependence. While unconvinced that the model is likely to be adopted on a global scale, Alanna Wurm found this a fascinating insight into one artist’s response to healthcare inequality that may become a much-needed network of solidarity for those excluded from their healthcare system. The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future. Cassie Thornton. Pluto Press. 2020.

The COVID-19 crisis, with its unpredictability and turbulence, has disrupted the way companies build their business strategies. Mark Esposito, Alessandro Lanteri, and Terence Tse write that two strategy frameworks combined can become part of a new strategic architecture to empower firms to identify and pursue growth opportunities in the post-pandemic world economy.

A pesar de sus limitados recursos materiales, Cuba es responsable de desarrollar dos de las tan solo 23 vacunas contra el coronavirus que han iniciado ensayos de fase 3 en el mundo, y tiene otras tres en camino. Helen Yaffe (University of Glasgow) explica cómo funcionan las vacunas Soberana, Abdala y Mambisa; cómo se iniciará el proceso de vacunación en Cuba y en el extranjero; y cómo el país logró elaborarlas contra el tiempo y contra todas las adversidades.