Podcast: Politics, Apathy Doomed Pandemic Response Long Before COVID

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic weaknesses in our disaster preparedness infrastructure. Despite prior warnings, politics and apathy nurtured a response system that prioritized appearances — e.g ... Read More

Biden's comment calling pandemic over complicates matters. Here's how. - USA TODAY

Public health experts said President Joe Biden's seemingly offhand comment that the COVID-19 pandemic is over is dangerous and problematic. Read More

Opinion | Pandemic Divisiveness in the U.S. Wasn’t What It Seemed - The New York Times

I’d like to tell you a story about the pandemic, one that may sound so gauzily hopeful, it would qualify today as a public health fairy tale. The story is this. When Covid arrived on American ... Read More

COVID pandemic: What did US do wrong? New book examines lessons - USA TODAY

In the absence of a federal commission on the COVID-19 pandemic, over 30 experts felt a duty to speak out and have written a book on how the US lost the pandemic war. Karen Weintraub USA TODAY ... Read More

President Biden declares that the COVID-19 pandemic 'is over' weeks before the midterm elections - Fox News

President Biden said during a news interview on Sunday night that the COVID-19 pandemic "is over" after using it as a justification for many of his policies. Read More

'The pandemic is over,' Biden says in TV interview - NBC News

Full coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic Elsewhere in the CBS interview, Biden said he has yet to decide whether he will seek re-election in 2024. “Look, my intention, as I said to begin with, is ... Read More

Five years after the Covid pandemic fractured American society, we still haven't healed - MSNBC

The Covid-19 pandemic reveals itself not as a singular event but as a multifaceted crisis that exposed deep-seated fault lines in American society. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ... Read More

US Politics Has a Post-Covid Hangover - Bloomberg

US Politics Has a Post-Covid Hangover The divides and realignments of today trace back to the pandemic, which affected different groups in starkly different ways. February 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM EST ... Read More

Covid-19 and Politics: Pandemic Deepened Countries’ Divisions, Survey Says - Bloomberg.com

The Covid-19 pandemic created deeper social divisions compared to the beginning of the outbreak, exposing weaknesses in political systems, according to findings of a survey conducted in 19 upper ... Read More

Covid Hero or ‘Lockdown Ron’? DeSantis and Trump Renew Pandemic Politics (Published 2023) - The New York Times

But while many Republican governors shut down their states at the pandemic’s start, Mr. DeSantis was early to fully reopen.. Mr. Trump, who was always skeptical of masking and other public ... Read More