By Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is...
By Victoria Bekiempis Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday the US has “the potential to go into a fifth wave” of coronavirus infections amid rising cases and stagnating vaccination rates. He also warned that the newly discovered...
The B.1.1.529 variant was first spotted in Botswana and six cases have been found in South Africa By Ian Sample Scientists have said a new Covid variant that carries an “extremely high number” of mutations may drive further waves of disease by evading the body’s...
By Jon Henley published in The Guardian The continent is now the centre of the global epidemic – again. As countries from the Baltic to the Med brace for harsher winter measures, we look at what’s driving the fourth wave. It was almost as if the pandemic had never...
It is hoped vaccine based on similar technology to Oxford Covid jab can protect against both Zaire and Sudan species of virus By Nicola Davis The first jab of a new Ebola vaccine that may protect against multiple species of the virus is to be given on...
Only 31% of pregnant Americans are fully vaccinated. I felt responsible for this bean-like bundle forming in my body. But the conflicting advice made it hard for me to decide By Ankita Rao These are the first three things I did when I found out I was pregnant in...
By Nick Robins-Early As Covid-19 cases in Peru rose rapidly during the early months of the pandemic, public interest in the drug ivermectin surged. Misleading information suggesting the drug, used to treat parasites in humans and livestock, had been proven effective...
By Nick Robins-Early Health authorities have warned there’s no proof for Ivermectin’s value in treating Covid-19. Still groups are touting the drug as the way out of the pandemic. At the top of a Florida-based telehealth website that promises “quality meds with fast...
US researchers say teenagers are more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than end up in hospital with Covid By Ian Sample Healthy boys may be more likely to be admitted to hospital with a rare side-effect of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine that causes...
State warns residents may not get care they would normally expect as case numbers rocket and governor urges people to take vaccine Idaho public health leaders have activated “crisis standards of care” allowing healthcare rationing for the state’s northern hospitals...
By Lorenzo Tondo Italy’s prime minister has announced his government could make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory, sparking a row in the country that has seen a recent rise in protests and violence from anti-vaxxers. During a press conference on Thursday, Mario Draghi said...
The year 2020 exposed the risks and weaknesses of the market-driven global system like never before. It’s hard to avoid the sense that a turning point has been reached by Adam Tooze If one word could sum up the experience of 2020, it would be disbelief. Between Xi...
Pressure grows to begin booster jabs for the vulnerable and extend vaccinations to younger teenagers By Robin McKie Coronavirus infections in England are now 26 times the levels that were experienced this time last year, according to the Office for National...
Teacher read to class without a mask despite Covid symptomsTeacher infected 26 people at California elementary school By Jessica Glenza An unvaccinated teacher in a California elementary school infected half her students and 26 people in total when she...
By Yasmin Tayag The US is stumbling in the dark when it comes to breakthrough cases. Why? Breakthrough cases – infections among vaccinated people – are happening. These are normal and expected because the vaccines, though all powerfully protective against Covid-19,...