The WTO Secretariat has prepared a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on e-commerce: experts note the growth of e-commerce and consider a number of related challenges, such as the need to bridge the digital divide both within and between countries.
Global growth is projected at — 4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast.
In a joint report of the World Economic Forum and Mercer the response of the global industry community to the COVID-19 pandemic is analyzed and recommendations to leaders on transforming the organization of work and workforce are given.
The coronavirus outbreak is only the latest in a long series of wakeup calls over the past few decades for the global health community. Once again, a high consequence pathogen, likely incubated in nature, infected humans, and overwhelmed health care systems before the medical community could figure out how to contain it. As of the time of this writing, more than 78,000 COVID-19 confirmed cases and nearly 2,500 deaths have been reported.
How NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Weill Cornell Medicine developed novel ICU care team models and redeployed physicians to staff an incremental 550 ICU beds within a 3-week period.
