More: Coronavirus
Not All Viruses Are Created Equal: The Case of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) vs. COVID-19
Viruses have always had a strange way of capturing the imagination. They’re not simply biological entities; they have become cultural symbols. When a virus's...
Pandemics and global health security: Lessons from covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, which swept across the globe beginning in late 2019, has exposed significant gaps in the world’s preparedness for global health crises....
How the COVID-19 Origins Debate Is Fueling US Partisan Divides Over China
Led by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a congressional hearing in June 2024 on Dr Anthony Fauci and the origins of COVID-19...
COVID-19 as a Human Security Threat in Non-traditional Security Issues
The end of the Cold War has had a new impact on international security in a more non-military direction and caused by non-State actors...
China’s Mysterious Pneumonia: A New Threat to Global Health Security
By the end of 2023, China was facing a mysterious pneumonia that caused children to be hospitalized. The surge of cases of this disease...
Boris Johnson: ‘the old should accept their fate’ as he failed to stop Covid deaths
Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed coronavirus was "nature's way of dealing with old people" as he refused to introduce lockdown restrictions that could have...
Science, Philosophy and Truth: Are We Prepared For “Covid II”?
"The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth."-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971)
The...
Long Covid: the pandemic’s testing aftermath
By tracking Covid-19 patients, doctors in Europe are in search of treatments for a lingering sickness that is both debilitating and puzzling.
By ANTHONY KING
Evelina Tacconelli,...
Hindsight to the COVID-19 Pandemic: India’s Meticulous Strategies
Authors: Baiq Shafira Salsabila, Diospyros Pieter Raphael Suitela, Muhammad Faiz Ramadhan
The Beginning of the Development of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
India is one of the...
Scientists remain vigilant for new Covid-19 variants while improving the ability to predict complications
Regular life may have resumed for most people, but the pandemic rumbles on as researchers keep a watch on new variants and increase efforts...