COVID-19 and Global Leadership Crisis in Israel: A Case Study

COVID-19 and Power in Global Health

Political scientists bring important tools to the analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly a focus on the crucial role of power in global health politics. We delineate different kinds of power at play during the COVID-19 crisis, showing how a dearth of compulsory, institutional, and epistemic power undermined global cooperation and fuel...

Estimating Algorithms for Prediction and Spread of a Factor as a Pandemic: A Case Study of Global COVID-19 Prevalence

Background: This paper presents open-source computer simulation programs developed for simulating, tracking, and estimating the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: The programs consisted of two separate parts: one set of programs built in Simulink with a block diagram display, and another one coded in MATLAB as scripts. The mathematical model used in this package was the SIR, SEIR, and SEIRD models re...

Ebola: a crisis in global health leadership.

History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19

Writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David White predicted in 1972 that “the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will be very dull.” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you ...

Domestic Violence and the COVID-19 Crisis

This letter intends to discuss how CoVID-19 pandemic and its related preventive measures such as maintaining social distance and reducing social and intimate relationships can affect the formation of domestic violence. It also points to the need for families to provide psychological support in dealing with this epidemic.