Health and Healthcare Systems

COVID-19 lessons from China, the new Young Global Leaders and other top stories of the week

Also read about emotional warnings from Italy's COVID-19 outbreak and how Singapore successfully contained the virus. Image: Pixabay

Adrian Monck

Bold decision-making can contain COVID-19. Lessons from China.
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Ventilators are like gold. Doctors fighting COVID-19 speak out.
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Ester Kim, Carl T. Bergstrom Image: The flattened curve shows how a reduced rate of coronavirus infection could reduce the strain on hospitals.

Measures to control the outbreak work — if taken quickly.

How Singapore successfully contained the Coronavirus.

Hand sanitizer isn’t as good as hand washing — and you have to wash like this.

Already changing the world. Meet the 2020 Young Global Leaders.

We can choose our future: two options for the Earth in 2050.

How much damage and how to respond? The economics of COVID-19.

What US hospitals can expect to face. Lessons from China.

Travel restrictions don’t work — unless paired with public health interventions.

Mini-mops and fog machines. How planes and trains are battling COVID-19.

‘What you do to your women, you do to your nation.’ The geopolitical threat from gender discrimination.

Forum and WHO launch COVID-19 action platform for business. (Business Insider)

It’s not too late to fight the Coronavirus. Op-ed by Forum’s president and our global health security lead. (Straits Times)

The long-term fight against COVID-19. Interview with the Forum health security lead. (CNBC)

How to translate diversity into resilient organisations. Op-ed by Forum lead. (Forbes)

A strategy to narrow Japan’s gender gap. Op-ed by two Forum leads. (Japan Times)

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