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Tag: Global Health

World Economic Forum in Davos

Billionaires at Davos don’t think COVID is a cold

January 21st, 2023 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“We don’t deserve to be shoved back into poorly ventilated workplaces while our politicians and press assure us that only crazy people would demand to breathe clean air,” writes Julia Doubleday.

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Vladimir Putin

In Russia, the pandemic is beating Putin

December 8th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

“A deadly virus can’t be ignored, jailed, exiled or co-opted — nor can it be locked down without great economic cost. That puts President Vladimir Putin of Russia in a bind. The pandemic, perhaps his hardiest foe to date, has starkly revealed the limits of his power,” writes Alexey Kovalev, the investigations editor at Meduza, an independent Russian news outlet.

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Ruy Barbosa

The consequences of denying reality

April 23rd, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, History, World Community

Brazil, 1904: “Senator Rui Barbosa, pigeon-chested and smooth-tongued orator, attacks vaccination using judicial weapons flowery with adjectives. In the name of liberty Rui Barbosa defends the right of every individual to be contaminated if he so desires. Torrential applause, thunderous ovations interrupt him from phrase to phrase.”

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Novel coronavirus

Ed Yong: How the coronavirus pandemic will end

March 25th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

“A global pandemic of this scale was inevitable. In recent years, hundreds of health experts have written books, white papers, and op-eds warning of the possibility.”

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Novel coronavirus

The world’s fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a treatment

March 21st, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Technology, World Community

“The novel coronavirus presents an unprecedented challenge for scientists: The speed at which the virus spreads means they must accelerate their research. But this is what the world’s fastest supercomputer was built for.” CNN explains.

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A woman standing alone

Rethinking and reframing: Let’s aim for physical rather than social distancing

March 20th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“Isolation can be toxic. Let’s increase physical distance, but stay connected,: writes Dr. Kenneth E. Miller.

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Trump impeachment cold open

Trump’s incompetence results in federal agencies waiting for orders as pandemic rapidly worsens

March 17th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, World Community

Unlike several years ago, when President Barack Obama ordered the Department of Defense to mobilize to respond to the ebola outbreak, Donald Trump has failed to involve the military in the United States’ response to the rapidly worsening coronavirus pandemic.

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Caricature of Donald Trump

Republican America isn’t prepared for the coronavirus crisis

March 16th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, Party Politics

“[T]he Pavlovian urge to win the short-term news cycle, own the libs and defend the economic interests of corporate America and Trump’s re-election are combining with the predilection for conspiracy-minded thinking on the right.”

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Caricature of Donald Trump

“It will go away”: A timeline of Trump playing down the coronavirus threat

March 12th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Public Planning, World Community

“Trump gambled very early and very often on the idea that the coronavirus wouldn’t turn out to be nearly as severe as some health officials have warned it could get,” Aaron Blake writes.

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Novel coronavirus

Archdiocese of Seattle suspends liturgies, tells region’s Catholics: Don’t come to church

March 11th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, Spirituality, World Community

“I am going to ask that all of our parishes in western Washington, in the Archdiocese of Seattle, effective today, suspend the celebration publicly of the Eucharist,” Archbishop Etienne said.

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Novel coronavirus

For Trump, coronavirus proves to be an enemy he can’t tweet away

March 9th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“A president who is at his strongest politically when he has a human target to attack has found it harder to confront a growing outbreak that has rattled the country,” The New York Times assesses.

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Jay Inslee

Governor Jay Inslee appears on CBS’ Face the Nation to talk about coronavirus response with Margaret Brennan

March 8th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

Read a transcript of Governor Jay Inslee’s appearance on one of the nation’s major Sunday morning talk shows.

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Novel coronavirus

Looking at how diseases spread, canceling SXSW was the right call

March 6th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

“No doubt canceling SXSW was a tough call for the city,” data scientist Spencer Fox writes. “But public health concerns must take priority.”

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Novel coronavirus

Inside China’s all-out war on the novel coronavirus

March 4th, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Via The New York Times: “Dr. Bruce Aylward, of the World Health Organization got a rare glimpse into Beijing’s campaign to stop the epidemic. Here’s what he saw.”

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John Oliver tackles coronavirus myths and scams on Last Week Tonight

March 1st, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare, World Community

As coronavirus spreads to the United States, John Oliver discusses what’s being done to fight the illness, what’s gone wrong, and how to stay safe.

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U.S. military to provide equipment, resources to battle Ebola epidemic in Africa

September 7th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

U.S. military to provide equipment, resources to battle Ebola epidemic in Africa It’s about time! President Barack Obama has announced that the United States military

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Chuck Todd scores interview with Barack Obama for his debut as host of Meet the Press

September 7th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, World Community

CHUCK TODD: Ebola. There’s some anxiety in the country about it. Obviously, it’s something that Africa’s trying to get its hands around. But there’s obviously

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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

June 18th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes The BBC reports on one of Finland’s most cherished (and cool) public services: “For seventy-five years, Finland’s expectant

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