In the European Commission’s cartoon strip Infected (see EUROPE B12486A1) more than in the Steven Soderbergh film Contagion, the importance of international cooperation is underlined as a key area of the action required to tackle a pandemic such as Covid-19. In 2011, when Infected was written, the European Union fully lived up to its role as a promoter of multilateralism alongside the United Nations and the United States.
A scene in the cartoon shows a plenary session debate at the...