List of Pandemics articles
![Between two sets of skyscrapers looking upwards is an American flag and clouds in a blue sky.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/new-york-skyscrapers-GettyImages-647575206.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Cities Are the Canaries in the Public Health Coal Mine
Preparing for the next pandemic starts in their streets and sewers.
![A cat (L) is seen inside the hazmat suit sleeve of a health worker taking swab samples from residents in Shanghai on June 6, 2022.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/covid-pandemic-cat-GettyImages-1241140320.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Blocking a Fair WHO Pandemic Accord Endangers Humanity
Without an equitable agreement, including wealthy nations sharing IP with poorer ones, the world is doomed to repeat its COVID-era mistakes.
![A person walks past a mask display at the World Health Expo in Wuhan, China, on April 7, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/health-expo-masks-GettyImages-1480617421.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Asia Should Take the Lead on Global Health
The region’s health care systems and innovations show how solidarity can shape well-being.
![Sang Lee (center) receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Kedren Community Health Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 16, 2021.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/covid-vaccines-economics-GettyImages-1231207654.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How COVID-19 Vaccines Inhibited Real Change
They saved millions of lives but absolved countries from fixing core problems.
![Protestors outside the White House call attention to those suffering from Long Covid](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/long-covid-tooze-GettyImages-1243370014.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Soaring Cost of Long COVID
An estimated 10 percent of coronavirus patients will need long-term care.
![A stone building with the logo WTO OMC on its facade.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/wto-omc-building-sign-GettyImages-1998838786.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The WTO Failed the World in Covid
Pandemic-related technology and intellectual property cannot remain in its authority.
![Mothers sit in a row with their babies and young children inside a large tent illuminated with string lights. One of the women sitting in the foreground has a wide smile as she looks down at the baby she cradles in her arms.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AFRICA-MALARIA-VACCINES-GettyImages-1247904712.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
New Lifesaving Malaria Vaccines Need to Be Available Now
Emergency deployment could save tens of thousands of children.
![Children are hooked up to IV drips on the stairs at a children's hospital in Beijing.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CHINA-HOSPITALS-GettyImages-1797516908.png?w=800?quality=90)
Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak
Authorities are covering up the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.
![The facade of the British Prime Minister's residence, 10 Downing Street, is covered in scaffolding as essential cleaning and maintenance work is carried out, in London, on August 4, 2008.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GettyImages-82174834.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Britain Has a Much Bigger Problem Than Brexit
The official investigation into the U.K.’s pandemic response has revealed a fundamentally dysfunctional state.
![Charmante Kapinga sits on a chair holding her young son as a nurse prepares to weigh him before a routine vaccination at the Mervedi medical center outside Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DRC-vaccinations-outbreak-Diana-Zeyneb-Alhindawi-06777.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Shadow of the Next Pandemic Looms in a Virus Hotspot
Low vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises the risk of diseases spreading and adapting undetected.
![A model of SARS-CoV-2 is displayed during a U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 2, 2020.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1224274139.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Pandemic Is Over. What Does That Even Mean?
COVID-19 isn’t a pandemic anymore. It’s just a never-ending nightmare.
![Masks photographed in a studio](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/narrow-objects-of-global-moment-masks-clint-blowers-2.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Face Masks Are Our COVID-19 Memorial
America’s remaining maskers are a living emblem of a lost war.
![security guard stands outside the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Wuhan-china-coronavirus-2020-Security-GettyImages-1195534971.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How American Journalists Watched China’s COVID-19 Crisis Unfold
The pandemic’s outbreak brought rare reporting freedoms.
![Sam Bankman-Fried speaks onstage during a charity gala in New York City.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FTX-CHARITY-GettyImages-1241501574.png?w=800?quality=90)
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Real Victims Aren’t in Crypto
Charity can’t be dependent on the whims of billionaires.
![Patients are treated in a hospital in Beijing.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CHINA-DRUGS-COVID-GettyImages-1245956837.png?w=800?quality=90)
COVID-Ravaged Chinese Public Is Desperate for Paxlovid
Beijing failed to prepare antiviral supplies before new outbreak.