Welcome to our weekly newsletter highlighting the best of The Economist’s coverage of the pandemic and its effects.
 
In our International section, we look at why vaccine passports are causing chaos around the world. The problem, argues our correspondent, is with humans, not technology. The current mess is reminiscent of the time before the first passports for travel between countries were standardised, just after the first world war.

We explain how India, whose public-health systems collapsed because of a catastrophic second covid-19 wave earlier in the year, seems to have beaten the virus. 

Across America, police unions seem to hate vaccine mandates, and the city leaders imposing them.
 
Our data journalists cover a curious result: people with covid-19 jabs have been less likely to die of other causes. A new study shows the discrepancy, but there isn’t yet an explanation.
 
In February 2020 Americans on average spent 5% of their working hours at home. By May, as lockdowns spread, the share had soared to 60%—a trend mirrored in other countries. Many people assumed that office life would soon return to something like its pre-pandemic norm. This has not happened. Our Free Exchange columnist looks at new research on why remote-first work is taking over the rich world.