'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
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'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
To fear or not to fear: Conceptions of COVID-19 in Italy and Sweden
Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic
19 minutes
5 years ago
To fear or not to fear: Conceptions of COVID-19 in Italy and Sweden
Is COVID-19 a super-contagious killer akin to Ebola in deadliness, or something more similar to a severe seasonal flu? In the course of the current pandemic, the populations of Italy and Sweden, informed by the media and public officials, have come to conceive of COVID-19 in strikingly different ways. This has influenced behavior and the ability of government authorities to manage the crisis in the two countries. In the first of a two-part interview, Prof. Giuliano di Baldassare—an Italian living in Sweden—explains how divergent conceptions of the coronavirus alternately facilitates and complicates crisis management depending on where on the curve a country is.
Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic
'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
