Lorena Barberia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used daily data on reported cases and deaths to understand, measure, and compare the spatiotemporal pattern of the spread across municipalities of COVID-19, showing that an overall failure of implementing prompt, coordinated, and equitable responses in a context of stark local inequalities fueled disease spread.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the differences in views and involvements between two cohorts of first generation emigres and found that the second cohort is enmeshed in transnational ties that, paradoxically, are unwittingly doing more to transform Cuba than first wave isolationism.

TL;DR: In this article , a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governmental organization, government and other experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries and territories to recommend specific actions to end this persistent global threat to public health.

TL;DR: The authors found that elections provoke increases in the fiscal deficit for Latin American democracies, but that this pattern is not contingent on a country being in the early phase of its democratic transition, and that the selection criteria utilized to define democracy and competitive elections when testing for political budget cycles.