Despite multilateral commitments and political statements of solidarity and cooperation to guarantee the availability and access to COVID-19 vaccines (and other relevant technologies for control and treatment), the scenario after the beginning of vaccination is marked by the deepening of vaccine...

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether major crises that impact the well-being of a large number of individuals can be catalysts for civic activism. Exploiting state-level variation in COVID-19 peaks and...

Healthcare professionals worldwide were at the forefront of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The conditions for healthcare professionals in India during the pandemic were especially challenging, however, because healthcare workers served a population of more than 1.4 billion people in a severely...