coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has evolved into a public health emergency of international concern and wreaked worldwide … vaccines at breakneck speed. This paper provides a health perspective of the virus and the pandemic it caused, based on … and course of the disease, testing, as well as treatments and vaccinations are highlighted. The pandemic response …

problematizes the received wisdom of greater state capacity in mitigating the severity of the pandemic. Based on a case study of … West Bengal, a subnational state of India, it shows that measures of state capacity do not map onto the pandemic response … significant variation during the pandemic response. While the state was constrained by fiscal and infrastructural limitations in …

pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …