Tag Archives | COVID-19

Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing very effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.

The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.

If we want to protect consumers from disease and price-gouging, we need to tackle the food monopolies and industrial factory farms that control our food system.

The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.

Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.

In this first of two extracts from Terina Hine’s new book, “A People’s History of Covid”, the impact of inequality and neoliberalism in the UK on the spread of Covid is outlined

Most governments are trying to trick us into believing we don’t need to adapt to COVID-19. They can’t sustain the illusion forever.

Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?

In the shadow of Covid-19, bigotry paints the Chinese identity as synonymous with disease and subversion—discriminatory policies, from visa restrictions to TikTok bans, have been ramped up ever since, writes FIONA SIM.

There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.

Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.

Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster.

Updated statistics on pulmonology consultations show 26.2% of patients with exacerbated asthma; 11.9% with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 11.4% with acute bronchitis; 9.7% with influenza; and 7.8% with pneumonia.

A racial justice-focused community organizing group led the charge for Albuquerque’s free bus fare policy.

This final article, covering the period from mid-July to the present day, shows how the coup was defeated and what happened in the aftermath.

The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.

The sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has increased the number of citations for Chinese research.

Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America.

A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.