Protests against police violence in Nigeria continue for the sixth day
The protesters’ main demands are the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the police and an end to police brutality. The government was forced to give in and dissolve SARS
COVID-19: Why do some patients suffer brain damage?
A debate continues to rage about whether the brain damage due to COVID-19 in some patients is because of the attack of the virus, or due to an immune response
Trump’s withdrawal from WHO is a cover-up for his abject failure on COVID-19
The WHO, warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global coordination. It is hated by the right-wing precisely for these reasons.
Why did the World Health Organization wait until March to declare a global pandemic?
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic
What are the differences between COVID-19, MERS and SARS?
On April 17, the journal Science published a study by a group of scientists from the Netherlands, who did a comparative study of the pathogenesis of the three diseases
Pandemic and socialism
As COVID-19 grips the world, in country after country, there is socialization of healthcare and of production of some essential goods, which markedly departs from the capitalist norm
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- Israeli court extends Ahmed Manasra’s solitary confinement for four more months
- Global health education in Greece threatened by commodification
- Putin invokes Castro’s legacy
- Dutch court finds 2007 airstrike in Afghanistan that killed 20 civilians unlawful, orders compensation
