Coronavirus
Current coronavirus pandemic ‘very severe’ but ‘not necessarily the big one’...
29 Dec, 2020
The head of the WHO health emergencies program Dr. Michael Ryan has warned there might be an “even more severe” pandemic in...
La Suède et le Japon payent le prix de leur gestion...
December 23, 2020
L’un des aspects les plus frappants dans la pandémie de Covid-19, c’est la différence radicale des stratégies mises en place d’un pays...
Lancet: COVID far deadlier than influenza
Background
To date, influenza epidemics have been considered suitable for use as a model for the COVID-19 epidemic, given that they are respiratory diseases with...
A country is entitled to refuse to repay a debt
by Eric Toussaint , Revista Mugica
26 November
The following interview, given by Éric Toussaint to the Argentine review Mugica, has been adapted to make...
‘Health dictatorship’: French citizens who refuse Covid-19 jab may be banned...
23 Dec, 2020
French citizens who decline to take the coronavirus vaccine will be barred from public transportation, among other places, under a controversial “Green...
Pre-existing inequality led to record UK Covid death rate, says health...
Sir Michael Marmot says children’s lives could be harmed for ever if deprivation not tackled
By Sarah Boseley
15 Dec 2020
Pre-existing social inequalities contributed to the...
Why does Cuba have so many doctors?
Dozens of countries have requested Cuba’s medical help to fight the coronavirus. Why are Cuba’s doctors in such high demand?
May 9, 2020
Le Covid-19 “est beaucoup plus grave que la grippe”, et a...
Au printemps 2020, la mortalité dans les hôpitaux français liés au Covid-19 était le triple de celle de la grippe saisonnière de 2018-2019. Pourtant,...
On Capitalism, Racism, Trump, and Pandemo-Fascism
by Paul Street *
December 18, 2020
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
The Covid-19 pandemic as it has played out in its favorite country the United States...
Government’s failure to introduce earlier lockdown ‘an act of gross negligence,’...
Dec. 20, 2020
FAILING to introduce Covid restrictions earlier was an “act of gross negligence,” Labour charged today after the PM sprung new measures on...