Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 3, 2021

A healthcare worker draws the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from a vial at Dignity Health Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center in Glendale, California, U.S., December 17, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo 


CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic. 

Murray had until recently been hopeful that the discovery of several effective vaccines could help countries achieve herd immunity, or nearly eliminate transmission through a combination of inoculation and previous infection.

But in the last month, data from a vaccine trial in South Africa showed not only that a rapidly-spreading coronavirus variant could dampen the effect of the vaccine, it could also evade natural immunity in people who had been previously infected. 

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 Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 3, 2021 


Joe Biden’s Risky Russia Sanctions Game -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest 




China Is Not Ten Feet Tall -- Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs 


Why Israel fears the ICC war crimes investigation -- Peter Beaumont, The Guardian 



The Massacres in Tigray -- Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review 


Why Mercenary Armies Are Running Amok -- Candace Rondeaux, WPR 


America’s Strategic Materials Problem -- Brent Sadler, National Interest

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