Coronavirus, Public Health Watch Now: A Tale of Two Responses: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Pandemic

September 8, 2020
By Perry World House and the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Many are looking to countries that controlled their outbreaks to understand what went wrong and where to go from here. This edition of The World Today, organized in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, looked at the state of the American response to the virus.

What can the United States learn from European responses to the pandemic, and what factors affected public health outcomes the most? While many countries closed their borders and competed with one another for medical supplies, is there still hope for European and trans-Atlantic collaboration as the world works towards long-term recovery? Will the competition continue over a vaccine?

Penn’s Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel discussed all this and more in a virtual conversation with Michael C. Horowitz of Perry World House and Karen Donfried of the German Marshall Fund.

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