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Questions tagged [covid-19]

Questions about political actions related to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in 2019, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. For general public health policy questions, use [public-health]. For questions requiring medical answers, please ask on https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com

The COVID-19 outbreak was unique politically because entire cities and nations went into lockdown for weeks on end to try and limit its spread.

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What do people who oppose Dr. Anthony Fauci believe he did wrong?

Elon Musk tweeted that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “prosecuted”. What did he do wrong?
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Have any governments admitted that their approach to COVID was mistaken?

I'm looking for examples of governments where top officials have declared that their approach to COVID was incorrect in hindsight. Couple of hypothetical examples: Swedish officials saying that their (relatively speaking) laissez faire approach was…
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What are the financial arrangements for COVID-19 vaccine purchases given there is no proven vaccine anywhere yet?

It seems like many governments are in the Covid vaccine purchase business. Hardly a week goes by without purchase announcements ranging from 100M+ to several billion $. UK 60M doses US $1.5B Canada millions of doses Taking for example,…
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How did various governments come to decide to implement lockdowns and travel restrictions to combat COVID-19?

Recently in an interview a Doctor from the World Health Organisation said that the WHO doesn't support lockdowns: “We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr Nabarro told The…
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What are the currently quarantined states planning to do in order to jumpstart their economy back to life?

Every country so far has been working on enforcing social distancing measures to tackle the COVID-19 epidemic, with El Salvador going as far as to isolate the entire country before they've received their first patient. This caused nearly ever major…
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Have any countries or regions announced coronavirus control plans other than quarantine/contact tracing?

So far the Western nations I'm aware of seem to be trending towards the Chinese/South Korean plan for coronavirus containment: Lockdown the entire country until the number of new cases is manageable Introduce localized quarantines and contact…
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Amongst experts (scientists, political philosophers and ethicists), do lockdown mandates have majority support, or is their necessity uncertain?

Many countries had lockdowns during Covid. It seemed that most scientists and health organizations supported them, and therefore, many government officials as well. There were some contradictory figures, like the Great Barrington Declaration, or…
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