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Better than natural immunity. A top vaccine researcher on goals and timelines.
⇒ Explore: COVID-19

If we don’t better protect nature, worse pandemics may be coming.
⇒ Explore: Biodiversity

Filling gaps in the COVID-19 response: a new alliance for social entrepreneurs.

Build back better. 5 ways to reset post-COVID labour markets.

Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods Image: International Labour Organization

What if a vaccine doesn’t work? Preparing a plan B.

Office workers at risk. Lessons from the outbreak in building X.

Fighting unemployment and climate change: Pakistan’s green stimulus.

How COVID-19 first spread: a snapshot of the pandemic’s origins.

Even if we return to normal daily life, our minds will never be the same.

DIY COVID tests. How an ex-lab tech made the US’s first community serum tests.

If we do it, is it propaganda? Debating a potential information offensive.

Falling out of the middle class. An older, white-collar worker’s story.

Stakeholder capitalism to fight the epidemic. Interview with Prof. Klaus Schwab. (Nikkei Asian Review)

40 global charities team up for COVID-19 lifeline. Coverage of Forum initiative. (Reuters)

Supply chains, COVID-19, and blockchain. Interview with Forum blockchain lead. (cointelegraph)

African countries should reopen gradually. Coverage of guidelines co-authored by Forum. (allafrica)

Forum outlines 3 conditions for easing lockdowns. (CNN Money Switzerland)

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