Security and Global Health

Questions from Quarantine: Lockdown Protests and the Preparedness Paradox

Life right now feels very odd. And it will feel odd for months—and even years—to come.

The Security and Global Health Project is proud to present a weekly web series with Security Mom Juliette Kayyem and Medicine Mom Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux. Each week, our experts will answer your questions from quarantine and give you advice on staying sane and sanitary in a global crisis. We hope you'll join our Moms every Tuesday, and don't forget to Tweet with #QuestionsFromQuarantine for a chance to have your question featured in next week's episode!

The Security and Global Health Project is proud to present a weekly web series with Security Mom Juliette Kayyem and Medicine Mom Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux. Each week, our experts will answer your questions from quarantine and give you advice on staying sane and sanitary in a global crisis. We hope you'll join our Moms every Tuesday, and don't forget to Tweet with #QuestionsFromQuarantine for a chance to have your question featured in next week's episode!

Joseph Allen and Juliette Kayyem discuss the need for a national plan going forward to beat COVID-19 and then detail it:  Limit the number of people who could be exposed to this novel coronavirus through social distancing; produce testing kits (on front end) and resources to avoid a decimation of our health system (on the back end); then manage the virus through a variety of measures until a vaccine is available.

Juliette Kayyem outlines some of the difficult decisions that lie ahead for governors regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Security and Global Health Project is proud to present a weekly web series with Security Mom Juliette Kayyem and Medicine Mom Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux. Each week, our experts will answer your questions from quarantine and give you advice on staying sane and sanitary in a global crisis. We hope you'll join our Moms every Tuesday, and don't forget to Tweet with #QuestionsFromQuarantine for a chance to have your question featured in next week's episode!

Juliette Kayyem writes that President Trump is more hindrance than help in the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic and describes how leaders in and out of government have to plan around him.

Juliette Kayyem writes that even though the shutdowns happened remarkably quickly, the process of Americans resuming their lives will be far more muddled.

The coronavirus is America's first 50-state disaster, and each governor is dependent on outside help that may never come writes Juliette Kayyem.