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The COVID-19 outbreak is what we call a wicked problem. It is highly complex, characterized by factual uncertainty, while values are in dispute and the stakes are high. Although wicked problems [...]

The speed at which guidance needs to be produced during the COVID-19 outbreak poses a huge challenge to guidance producing bodies around the globe. How to appraise and include wide ranging types [...]

  “When the craic is over” Hauke Weiß   The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the life of almost every person on the planet. In Dublin, restrictions of public life have been tight [...]

  The dark side and the bright side of the confinement Adriana Loverre   Confined for weeks, France kept adopting additional measures to contain the pandemic. Fortunately, the number of [...]

“This chronicle is not a story of definitive victory…” —Albert Camus, The Plague Maria Soultsioti “There have been as many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars [...]

  April 2020: Turbulent times, intense feelings Xavier Martiáñez Vendrell   Back in 1573 and 1574, during the Eighty Years’ War (also known as the Dutch War for Independence), the city [...]

  A journey into a world you have never known: A COVID-19 diary from a young virologist in Austria. Zsofia Keszei   “As Franklin P Jones said, experience is the marvelous thing that [...]

  Lockdown. A word I’ve never heard before… Coralie Guy   Last September, I left France to start a PhD in Immunology in Ireland. Never would I have imagined witnessing such [...]

  “L’odeur de la pandémie”: The scent of pandemia? Alix Spahn   The pungent, ticklish smell of disinfectant became a routine part of the laboratory center’s entrance procedure. [...]

  “Lucky” During a Lockdown? Pau Ribó Molina   The first news of a SARS virus outbreak in China seemed very far away from the Netherlands. Nevertheless, frequent updates were provided [...]