Historian of Medicine Vivek Neelakantan argues that the pandemic has revealed fault lines in Indian administration, especially impacting the lives of migrant laborers or the substantial Muslim minority.
In the book Making Health Public, published in 2016, political communication scholar Daniel Hallin and Anthropologist Charles Briggs examine news coverage of health issues in the United States. In this interview, Hallin compares the media coverage of Covid-19 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, talks about the possible consequences of this crisis for the upcoming US presidential elections and highlights some similarities between the fields of Communication and Medical Humanities.
La historiadora mexicana América Molina del Villar explora las similitudes entre la influenza de 1918 y la covid-19: en las dos enfermedades están involucrados el consumo y tratamiento de animales, las medidas para contener el contagio son las mismas y las dos pandemias ponen evidencia la desigualdad social.