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The Virus Hunters Trying to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Nobody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers, coughs, and breathing problems. Pretty soon, they realized that the disease-causing culprit was a new virus humans hadn’t seen before. And the world, lacking a coordinated global response, was unprepared. Some countries acted quickly to develop tests for the novel coronavirus, while others with fewer resources were left behind. With a virus oblivious to national borders, and with travel between countries and continents more common than it had been in previo...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Disease Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

A Fast-Spreading Pandemic has Reduced an Additional 100 Million People into Poverty
In India, five out of six people in multidimensional poverty were from lower castes. Credit: UNDP India/Dhiraj SinghBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jan 6 2022 (IPS) The UN’s highly-ambitious goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 has been severely undermined by a rash of problems worldwide, including an escalating coronavirus pandemic, continued widespread military conflicts and the devastating impact of climate change. According to published estimates, more than 700 million people have been living in poverty around the world, surviving on less than $1.90 a day. But the fast-spreading pandemic, whose origins go back...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Thalif Deen Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

COVAX Was a Great Idea, But Is Now 500 Million Doses Short of Its Vaccine Distribution Goals. What Exactly Went Wrong?
In January 2020, world leaders and industry titans gathered in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos conference. Much of the conversation centered around the mysterious new coronavirus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, a month earlier, and had at that point infected nearly 300 people in four countries. Two of the conference’s attendees were Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Dr. Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Over scotch and nachos one night, Berkley and Hatchett got to talking about worst-case scenarios. “&lsquo...
Source: TIME: Health - September 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Daniel Morgan murder: Labour MP asks for assurance report will not be delayed – as it happened
Latest updates: Labour MPChris Bryant asks home office minister Victoria Atkins to commit to date for report to be publishedPriti Patel accused of ‘cover up’ over Daniel Morgan investigationWho was Daniel Morgan and what is the new row over his murder case?BBC to investigate news culture amid calls for reform by ministersGlobal coronavirus updates – live6.34pmBSTIt is not difficult to see why powerful people, with very close friends in News International [Rupert Murdoch ’s newspaper company, now called News UK] might want to delay or prevent this publication. So has the home secretary, or any of her advisers or off...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 24, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Sparrow Tags: Politics Coronavirus UK news Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings Science Dominic Raab Belarus BBC John Whittingdale Police Source Type: news

Generation Q(uarantine): Children Of The Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on existing problems that some call the biggest pandemic issue we face today: mental health. “Good mental health is absolutely fundamental to overall health and well-being,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. And children are particularly affected.  A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear that had been there before added up, and investigation found rise in school safeguarding reports, eating disorders and sleeping pill prescriptions. Parents struggle to get help, and, as a social worker in the UK put it “everybody feels anxious at the moment. Yo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare Policy Medical Education depression Hospital digital technology children mental health anxiety WHO lockdown child rights Human Rights Watch UNICEF quarantine Generati Source Type: blogs

UN Special Session on COVID-19 Must Recognize Right to Health & Access to Vaccines
A healthcare worker at a testing facility collects samples for the coronavirus at Mimar Sinan State Hospital, Buyukcekmece district in Istanbul, Turkey. Credit: UNDP Turkey/Levent KuluBy Riccardo PetrellaBRUSSELS, Nov 30 2020 (IPS) The holding of this Special Session (the 37th in the history of the UN) is of considerable importance. It is a unique opportunity to define and implement joint actions at the global level to fight the pandemic in order to ensure the right to life and health for all the inhabitants of the Earth. As the President of the UN General Assembly wrote in his letter of convocation: “Let us not forg...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Riccardo Petrella Tags: Development & Aid Education Featured Global Globalisation Headlines Health Inequity Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Financial Scams Rise as Coronavirus Hits Developing Countries
Credit: County of Los AngelesBy David MedineWASHINGTON DC, May 5 2020 (IPS) In the Philippines, Peru, India, Kenya, South Africa and many other developing countries, poor people who are already struggling with the health impact of the coronavirus pandemic have been targeted by online fraudsters trying to take unfair advantage of them. There is the risk that these scams could undermine confidence in digital technologies that are proving so very important in keeping people informed and connected during the pandemic. In particular, trust in digital financial services, which have been useful in advancing financial inclusion e...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David Medine Tags: Civil Society Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

West First Policies Expose Myths
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 31 2020 (IPS) As the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic shifts from China to the developed West, all too many rich countries are acting selfishly, invoking the ‘national interest’, by banning exports of vital medical supplies. US President Donald Trump has reportedly gone further by seeking exclusive rights to a future coronavirus vaccine, although the report has been denied by a German drug company and some investors believed to be involved. Europe first Following France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland now also want to ban the export of cer...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news