Like every region in the world, the EU struggled in its response to COVID-19–particularly in
2020 when much was still unknown about the disease. The Global Health Security Index …

COVID-19 led to significant and dynamic shifts in power relations within and between
governments, teaching us how governments make health policies and how health crises …

Government responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic in the Nordic states—Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—exhibit similarities and differences. This article investigates …

The equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the most important tests of global
cooperation that the world has faced in recent decades. Collectively, global leaders failed …

Epidemiological surveillance and notification of respiratory infections are important for
management and control of epidemics and pandemics. Fact-based decisions, like social …

Abstract Background Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are an unsupervised learning clustering
and dimensionality reduction algorithm capable of mapping an initial complex high …

This article uses a geopolitical lens to assess the EU's response to COVID-19 by exploring
the Commission's creation of an emergency medical stockpile, dubbed rescEU. The article …

Diversos estudos sobre o enfrentamento da COVID-19 vêm sendo desenvolvidos em vários
países. Contudo, são escassos aqueles que comparam casos correspondentes à primeira …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought changes in the pattern of care use. A
significant increase in the volume of emergencies was expected. However, a significant …

In this article, we first review current Japanese urban and regional sociological literature on
the COVID‐19 pandemic. Some empirical studies of the current conditions, challenges, and …