THE COVID-19 pandemic is testing our institutions and our society like no other crisis in recent memory. Thus far, the harshest impacts have been borne disproportionately by those who are least in a position to bear a shock of this magnitude. Our response to the second wave (and to any future waves) must reverse this. Although the vaccination drive and the immediate public health crisis loom large, to avoid an even bigger economic crisis as a result of the second wave, policymakers must learn from the first year of COVID and take urgent, substantial steps.
In our new report. . .
