By The Editorial Board* – The New York Times Tackling the pandemic will require a new, collective way of thinking about public health and society as a whole. In 1941, with war tearing through Europe and Asia and America on the precipice of joining the conflict, President…
By John Scales Avery* The urgent need for a vaccine Public health experts say that if the COVID-19 epidemic is not successfully contained, it could become a global pandemic, perhaps spreading to 80% of the world’s population. With a 1% mortality rate, this would mean that 70…
By Jeet Heer* – The Nation Trump is ramping up hatred of foreigners during a crisis that requires international cooperation Bigotry has always served Donald Trump well. Racism played no small part in his ascension to the White House.
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute The virus has starkly exposed the dangers of offshoring all production; we have a whole series of shortages that can only be mitigated by bringing some production back home. The coronavirus will eventually pass, but the same…
Redazione Bergamo online – Corriere della Sera «In one of the non-stop e-mails that I receive from my hospital administration on a more than daily basis, there was a paragraph on “how to be responsible on social media”, with some recommendations that we all can agree on…
By The Editorial Board* – The New York Times Paid sick leave could slow the spread of the disease and its impact on the economy The Federal Reserve did what it could Tuesday to offset the growing economic impact of the coronavirus by announcing a supersize reduction in its…
By Daniel Trilling* – The Guardian Politicians across Europe have been quick to exploit the outbreak by heaping suspicion on the most marginalised When I give talks on Europe’s “refugee crisis” I often start by showing a photograph of a rescue boat arriving at the port of…
The Economist Covid-19 presents economic policymakers with a new sort of threat It mixes demand and supply effects The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, or so reckoned Franklin Roosevelt. In many an economic downturn that is true—an anxiety-induced reluctance to…
By Claire Lim and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 11 2020 (IPS) – Many medicines and medical tests are unaffordable to most of humanity owing to the ability of typically transnational pharmaceutical giants to abuse their monopoly powers, enforced by…
THE ECONOMIST The government steps up support, not to boost growth but to ensure social stability RARELY HAVE plans in China fallen apart so swiftly, so publicly. On January 12th the leaders of Hubei declared that the province’s GDP would grow by 7.5% this year.
