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COVID: Did A Delayed Second Dose Give the Delta Variant an Evolutionary Helping Hand?
The delta coronavirus variant, which was first detected in India, is now the dominant variant in the UK. Some experts warn that the delta variant may…
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COVID-19 Recovery: Some Economies Will Take Longer to Rebound – This is Bad for Everyone
National economies are beginning to return to their pre-pandemic levels. But like the uneven impact of the pandemic itself, the pace of economic recovery is massively…
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Coronavirus Variants Have New Names: We Can Finally Stop Stigmatising Countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for the coronavirus that uses Greek letters to refer to the different variants. For the…
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Covid-19 and The Mental Health Crisis in The Medical Profession
Frontline medical workers across the world are more stressed, anxious and making poorer decisions, and they’re unconsciously telling us through their social media posts. Like everybody…
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Shame on Global Agencies
Intergovernmental organisations have failed to counter vaccine nationalism. The wrath of Covid-19 with its new recalcitrant variants engulfs the developing world. The richer countries, with their…
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What Happens When the Vaccine Factory of the World Can’t Deliver?
India reported that 4,529 people had died from Covid-19 on Tuesday alone. That’s the highest official daily death count for any country since the beginning of…
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World’s Worst Pandemic Leaders: 5 Presidents and Prime Ministers Who Badly Mishandled COVID-19
COVID-19 is notoriously hard to control, and political leaders are only part of the calculus when it comes to pandemic management. But some current and former…
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India’s Covid Catastrophe Rooted in Modi’s Vanity
Indian leader's administration puts public image above saving lives amid the world's worst-yet Covid-19 outbreak India has set an unenviable new world record. More than 348,421…
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How the Covid-19 Second Wave has Damaged Modi’s Personality Cult Even Among His Loyal Followers
The crisis has weakened the trust that is at the core of Modi’s appeal. The second wave of the pandemic has broken through the formidable personality…
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COVID Crisis in India: Why Its Public Health Strategy Failed
Most countries have used what’s known as the Swiss cheese model in planning their COVID response. In this risk-management model, each preventative measure is represented by…
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Prepare for the Price to be Paid for Learning Loss
Since the beginning of the pandemic, educational institutions have been closed in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. Face-to-face education had been stopped…
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Share the Intellectual Property on COVID-19
Intellectual Property must serve the global good, rather than humanity serving the interests of a few private companies. And in the case of COVID-19, the global…