Gender Disparities in COVID Death Rates, the Biden-Harris Climate Agenda, and More

October 20, 2021

In the United States, the overall COVID-19 death rate for men is 1.6 times higher than the death rate for women. Richard Reeves and Beyond Deng analyze COVID-19 mortality trends by gender, age, and race, discuss potential factors at play, and stress the importance of vaccinating the nation’s most vulnerable populations.

With the U.N. Climate Conference on the horizon, Anthony Pipa and Kaysie Brown write that the Biden administration has an opportunity to leverage the areas of intersection and synergy between the U.S. climate agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to advance American climate ambitions.

“Red-state governors are in trouble with majorities because they are pandering to a subset of voters in their party who have decided to equate what most voters see as public health common sense with an attack on liberty. If this keeps up, they may pay the political price,” says Elaine Kamarck.

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