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 [...]
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