Online Exclusive • 12/21/2020 • Blog
Can Staying at Home be Saving Lives and Avoiding Killing? COVID-19, Lockdowns and the Doing/Allowing Distinction
Lockdown and its purpose have been summarized in five words that have echoed from the mouths of politicians, public health bodies, and social media accounts ...
Online Exclusive • 12/18/2020 • Essay
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health and the Environment in Rural Peru
Infectious diseases such as COVID-19 are indicators of the complex interaction between the human species and the environment. Peru has among the most extensive levels ...
Online Exclusive • 12/18/2020 • Essay
Corruption and COVID-19 in Ecuador
On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. On the same day, Ecuador’s government declared a state of emergency and shortly ...
Online Exclusive • 12/18/2020 • Essay
Sustaining life: Indigenous Women and COVID-19 in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The colonization of natural spaces and human contact with animals that are reservoirs of viruses and pathogens is the first link in the chain that ...
Online Exclusive • 12/18/2020 • Essay
Introduction: Latin American Responses to COVID-19
In some ways, the Latin American experiences of COVID-19 look much like those seen throughout the world. There are considerable difficulties in containing the spread ...