Intriguing looks at the Swedish approach to pandemic response from Vanity Fair and Nature

An argument that the pandemic is revealing varieties of ‘structural violence’ by government including the UK’s neglect of its health services under austerity, by two professors at Queen Mary University London (this is from Counterpunch, which has provided numerous valuable commentaries on the politics of the pandemic)

A debunking of the idea that UK government is ‘following the science’, pointing out that this claim doesn’t even make sense in the uncertain world of public health policy

And a fine, plain-language guide to the wonderful world of World Health Organization decision-making and finance