According to the NPR website, "In Seoul, gyms are banned from playing up-tempo music, such as K-pop hits. The regulations are intended to prevent people from breathing too heavily, which could spread the virus."

David Leonhardt discusses how the largest vaccine gap seems to stem from class rather than other factors such as race, ethnicity, or political affiliation. He relates this phenomenon to the growing class gap in the United States and how it has lead to worse health and quality of life outcomes for working class individuals. 

Shehrose Charania, whose parents immigrated from Pakistan, became the first person from her family to graduate college during the COVID-19 pandemic. She had to overcome many struggles to get there, including moving back into her parents' small home after the dorms shut down, caring for her mother—and herself—when they both caught COVID, and helping her dad pay for basic necessities after he lost his job. 

Purdue University Archives and Special Collections is creating a collection that focuses on the memories, stories, and artifacts (such as videos, photographs, records, and physical objects) related to the Purdue community's experiences with the pandemic. There is a website where faculty, staff, and students can contribute to the collection. 

This article features Brown University junior Molly Cook, who collaborated on a research project on how the media covered the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that the American media covered the pandemic more negatively than international news outlets. 

New York Times writer Sarah Lyall commemorates the one-year anniversary of working remotely and The New York Times office shutting its doors due to the pandemic. She reflects on the loss of connection from not being able to go to the office and communicate with co-workers in-person. 

This article details the lives of current or former higher ed employees and how their day-to-day responsibilities have been affected by the pandemic. 

Stjepan Hauser, world-renowned cellist known for his involvement in 2Cellos, plays Nessun Dorma in Dubrovnik for his Alone, Together series.

This interactive article describes the tension between ultra-Orthodox groups and secular society in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In this opinion article, Michele Gelfand presents research on the differences between more strict, rule-abiding cultures and looser, rule-breaking cultures and how those differences have contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic's effects across the world. 

To contain the spread of COVID-19, France has lifted a ban on employees eating at their desk. Previously, this practice was banned so that employees were ensured a break from work. 

In the poem she read at the Super Bowl, Amanda Gorman honors individuals who have stepped up and become leaders/helpers during the pandemic. 

Beckie Supiano writes about a workshop developed by Martha Fay Burtis, a learning developer and the associate director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative (CoLab) at Plymouth State University. In this workshop, faculty members use storytelling to process and reflect on their experiences teaching during a pandemic. The storytelling strategies implemented in this workshop are similar to those used in intercultural learning. 

Italian architect Stefano Boeri designed 1,500 special pavilions where the coronavirus vaccine will be administered across the country. These pavilions feature a primrose theme and go hand and hand with Italy's vaccine program slogan: "With a flower, Italy comes back to life." 

In this commercial, a Turkish family shares their dinner (in a socially distanced way) with an elderly German man who lives alone and has been diagnosed with COVID-19. 

Individuals from around the world (such as South Korea, Senegal, Singapore, Germany, and Australia) were shown videos and statistics centered on the United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of their responses were negative, and they compared their own countries' responses to those of the U.S. 

This page features a compilation of pieces by Purdue photographers and videographers. Some of these pieces focus on Purdue's response to the pandemic, including changes to Boiler Gold Rush in light of the Protect Purdue guidelines.

In this piece, Meghan Markle (Duchess of Sussex) recalls the time when a reporter asked her if she was okay. It's a powerful moment that she remembers because no one else had asked her that question up until that point (since she became a member of the royal family). Markle discusses how this one simple question can help people to know that they are not alone and help them to heal. She argues how important this is in our current age, with the pandemic, protests, and the polarization that exists between Americans. She also discusses how this question helped her cope with a miscarriage, and how it might help other women and their partners deal with such a painful situation. 

Would "Are you okay?" be such a healing, helpful question in other places outside of the United States?

Readers of The New York Times sent in six words that described what they made them in thankful during the year 2020. Responses range from "The crinkling eye above the mask" to "Fell in love six feet apart." Common responses also included references to the 2020 presidential election in the United States and the upcoming vaccine for COVID-19. 

With remote work on the rise during the pandemic, workers from tech companies and other large companies have been relocating from big cities, such as San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle, to smaller cities, like Burlington in Vermont. This NPR article discusses this trend and how it might affect both big and smaller cities culturally. 

This article, written by Tamara Hardingham-Gill, features chefs and bakers around the world who have created coronavirus-themed food. For example, Chef Hoang Tung in Hanoi, Vietnam created a hamburger bun shaped like the virus and Schuerener Backparadies bakery in Germany created small cakes shaped like toilet paper rolls. 

Dance moves include things like, "Can I get six feet, please?"

Erika Funkhouser, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT teaches a Poetry Writing Workshop. The students in her class during the Spring 2020 semester wrote poems to describe their feelings during the pandemic. 

This article features an art exhibition in Beijing that depicts China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition aligns with the government's official stance and narrative about their response. 

This article, by Jason Beaubien, details Rwanda's significant efforts to curb the effects of the coronavirus within the country. It discusses how citizens are asked if they want to be tested as they are going about their day. The tests are voluntary, but there is social pressure to comply. The Rwandan government has also been extremely diligent and successful with contact tracing, and they have dedicated facilities for those who test positive to isolate. 

This video features individuals from 35 countries thanking and paying tribute to frontline workers in a number of different languages.

"The Global Play Brigade (GPB) has emerged in response to the global pandemic that is affecting all of humanity. We are artists/performers/therapists/educators who come out of the growing social movement of performance activism. We believe that integrating and utilizing play, impro, clown, theater and therapeutics into everyday life is a vital methodology for creating hope, possibility, emotional well-being and development. This current human crisis is unleashing a surge of human creativity and connection that has always been there but was hidden or suppressed—and now, out of necessity, it’s seeing the light of day in beautiful expressions across the globe."

This article, written by Marin Karaffa, analyzes panic buying in several different countries (namely, Australia, Germany, and Japan) using Hofstede's cultural dimensions. 

For this article, individuals from around the world sent in postcard essays that described their feelings and observations as cities being to reopen. Countries/regions represented in the essays include Austria, Latvia, Scotland, and Greece. 

This podcast episode features Sofia Fenner, an assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College. She uses comparative politics to explain why some countries are handling the COVID-19 better than others. 

This article describes the differences in reactions between more stable countries—like the United States and the United Kingdom—and politically unstable, war-torn countries, like Afghanistan and Syria. Individuals living in less stable areas more often accept that their conditions are out of their control and therefore tend to live in the moment and listen to guidelines about sheltering in place because they are already used to everyday uncertainty. In contrast, people who live in more privileged areas are more likely to believe that they have control over their lives and therefore have a more difficult time to adjusting and following orders. 

"A New World Through My Window" is a personal essay written by Olga Tokarczuk who is from Wroclaw, Poland. Tokarczuk writes about what she sees as she looks out her window during quarantine as well as her thoughts and fears about what is to become of the world after the pandemic. 

The Atlantic features a short documentary called Social Distance, which shows how people from 30 different countries have been going about their day during the COVID-19 quarantine. The filmmakers, Ivan Cash and Jacob Jonas, created the documentary by editing videos that people submitted. Additionally, the score, which was written by Steve Hackman, is a compilation of musicians around the world who received Hackman's sheet music and then recorded themselves playing. 

This segment of NPR's Morning Edition highlights the immense disparities between the rich and the working class during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as some of the tone deaf responses from the wealthy on social media.

This article, written by John Knipfing for LinkedIn, provides useful tips on how to avoid miscommunication during virtual conversations. 

In this blog post, "a mom of a tall black 15-year-old" describes her fear of her son wearing a mask in public (because of racial bias, profiling, and violence) in conjunction with her fear of him risking illness by not wearing one. Her conflicted thoughts/emotions represent how many Black Americans are currently feeling as the pandemic continues to disproportionately impact marginalized communities. 

The Purdue University Asian American and Asian Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC) has compiled resources that aim to help instructors/professors address anti-Asian racism, bias, and violence that has occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The two articles linked in this post demonstrate both the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on marginalized communities and how those communities have responded. The first article from The Atlantic ("Why Don't We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are?) highlights the lack of statistics on communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus. The second article from Yes Magazine ("12 Ways Communities Are Taking Care of Each Other During the Pandemic") shows how communities who face systemic oppression and are often forgotten by our institutions are sharing resources and helping each other through the crisis. 

The juxtaposition of these two articles demonstrates how culture leads us to respond in particular ways and how we shape culture through our actions. Additionally, they show how power and equity affect our actions and responses. 

This article discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted death and funeral rituals around the world. Many families and friends who recently lost a loved one are facing delayed burials or required social distancing at funerals. 

This article, written by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento for NPR, looks at how teens and young adults—Generation Z—are handling lockdowns that have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sarmiento interviewed young people from or living in South Korea, Italy, the United States, Spain, Mexico, and Chile.

This article describes the #Cinemadacasa initiative in Rome, in which images from a variety of films are projected onto buildings throughout the city every night. This initiative serves as a way to uplift citizens and pay homage to Rome's connection to the film industry. 

An episode of the NPR podcast Rough Translation features conversations with international correspondents about how culture is affecting responses to COVID-19. 

World leaders' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are largely dependent on national, regional, or local culture.

The BBC summarizes Queen Elizabeth II's message to the United Kingdom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the exception of her annual Christmas Day message, the Queen rarely gives speeches, so this was considered a significant event and demonstrates the cultural influence of the monarchy in the United Kingdom. 

A video featured on The Guardian is a compilation of Italian mayors upset and yelling at constituents disobeying lockdown orders.

The National post featured a video of Sint Maarten Prime Minister Silveria E. Jacobs ordering citizens to buy 2-weeks worth of groceries in the event of a full lockdown and chastising anyone making excuses to disobey stay at home orders. She has been praised for her straight forward communication with citizens.

Since the pandemic was first declared, Jacinda Ardern has been hosting Facebook Live Q&As and communicating with her citizens in a calm and conversational tone. 

This article, written by Christian Anderson and Henrik Pryser Libell for The New York Times, highlights Finland's stockpile of medical supplies, which they have been building since the 1950s. Anderson and Libell say that the stockpile is a holdover from the Cold War era and also demonstrates a unique cultural value within the country. 

This visual story, composed by Mary Beth Sheridan for The Washington Post, demonstrates how countries across the world are promoting safety through PSAs about the coronavirus. The PSAs are tailored to cultural norms and traditions. Countries featured within the article include Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, Iran, Senegal, Uganda, and Guatemala.