Tag: Coronavirus
4 things to know about the omicron variant
The omicron variant offers yet another reason for caution in the age of COVID-19. Now that you’re in the know, keep yourself safer with a few thoughtful tips.
Here’s why the CDC recommends wearing masks indoors even if you’ve...
The shifting recommendations don’t mean that the old ones were wrong, necessarily, only that conditions have changed.
Delta variant linked to COVID surges amid slow US vaccination rates...
“Our expectation should be, by July, this will be the dominant variant.”
Lessons from the past: Protecting women and girls from violence during...
Little attention has been paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.
As rich nations protect corporate patents, the global vaccine divide is...
Corporate profits are not more important than the lives of millions of poor people around the globe.
‘We’ve let the worst happen’: Reflecting on 400,000 dead
Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Caroline Chen, health care reporter, shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.
President-Elect Biden: Time for YOU to follow the science
A president can do a lot in battling climate change, without Congressional approval, through executive orders and EPA regulations. Obama’s record was mixed and hesitant. Biden will need to do many times better.
Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by spring 2021, study...
The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.
Young people are primary coronavirus spreaders, WHO warns
The WHO findings were based on an analysis of roughly 6 million international cases that spanned from late February to mid-July.
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AOC condemns $20 million bribe in Michigan’s political landscape as a stark indicator of...
A political development involving U.S. Senate candidate Hill Harper and U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, has cast a stark light on what many progressive lawmakers see as the corrupting influence of money in American politics.
Right-wing mayhem regorges Social Darwinism, poster child for scandalous, authoritarian bunk
History does not repeat, but in this case it emphatically rhymes. With Trumpist war cries for his New Nazism, we cannot avoid the obvious parallels.
COP28 president caught in oil lobbying scandal: Secretly pushes fossil fuel agenda amidst climate...
This conflict of interest, uncovered through an investigation by the Center for Climate Reporting (CCR), raises serious questions about the integrity of the UN climate summit leadership.
Is it time (once again) for nonviolent rebellion?
How to end dreams of revenge in Israel, Palestine, and elsewhere?
Exposed: Saudi Arabia’s secret plan to fuel fossil dependency in Africa and Asia
The investigation discovered that this extensive plan involves not only the deployment of fleets of petrol and diesel-fueled vehicles, but also a calculated move to lobby against subsidies for electric vehicles across the globe.