Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics Interim Report

January 2021 Sheila Jasanoff, Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Onur Özgöde, Margarita Rayzberg Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cornell University, … Read More

Japan’s response to the coronavirus is a slow-motion train wreck – Washington Post

Japan’s bureaucrats are great at some things. Crisis management doesn’t seem to be one of them.
As it attempts to manage the fallout of the covid-19 coronavirus — which has taken the lives of more than 2,000 people worldwide, including a Japanese man and woman on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship — Japan is reliving the bureaucratic red-tape nightmares that hampered emergency efforts in Kobe in 1995 and Fukushima in 2011.… Read More