Vaccine

August 24, 2020

Preventing Future Waves of COVID-19

Sarun Charumilind, Matt Craven, Jessica Lamb, and Matt Wilson

Behaviour Change, Adaptation, COVID-19, Decision-making, Future, Health, risk, uncertainty, Vaccine

The success of responses to COVID-19, and other global threats for that matter, hinges on the ability of humans to rapidly learn and change their behaviour. Riskthinking.ai’s forward-looking scenarios tools help decision-makers better understand the risks, and related costs, they face when it comes to threats like a global pandemic, and identify the kinds of behaviours and supportive policies that will have the biggest positive impact.

August 4, 2020

How the Pandemic Defeated America

Ed Yong

COVID-19, Decision-making, Green recovery, Health, risk, uncertainty, Vaccine

A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom. It’s what happens in the complete absence of risk thinking.

June 20, 2020

COMMENTARY: Think a COVID-19 vaccine is months away? It could actually take years

Byram W. Bridle and Shayan Sharif

COVID-19, uncertainty, Vaccine

The timeline surrounding the development of an effective vaccine is just one of several uncertainties flagging COVID-19, which makes planning for the future difficult. Riskthinking.AI is developing scenarios tools for precisely this challenge.

May 9, 2020

No COVID-19 Models Are Perfect, But Some Are Useful

Peter H. Gleick

COVID-19, Decision-making, Disease, Future, Modeling, uncertainty, Vaccine

The global coronavirus pandemic has brought renewed interest and focus on scientific models as we try to get a handle on what the future will bring, how many people will fall sick and die, what the economic impacts will be, and what actions politicians should take. But confusion abounds about what these “models” say and how to reconcile their often seemingly conflicting visions of the future.

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Preventing Future Waves of COVID-19

How the Pandemic Defeated America

COMMENTARY: Think a COVID-19 vaccine is months away? It could actually take years

No COVID-19 Models Are Perfect, But Some Are Useful

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