pandemic

Universal healthcare ‘absolute necessity’ during pandemic, Dems have ‘no excuses’ not to provide it – Bernie Sanders’s son to RT

Sanders, a campaign policy strategist, told RT’s Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground that the single-payer system Americans call Medicare-for-all enjoys…

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No mercy to pandemic-hit states as ECB chief says canceling Covid debts ‘unthinkable’

“Canceling that debt is unthinkable. It would be a violation of the European treaty which strictly forbids monetary financing of…

3 years ago

Bill Gates calls for global alert system and ‘pandemic fire squads’ for post-Covid-19 world

The Microsoft co-founder, who ranks as the world's third-richest person, took to Twitter Monday to make his pitch for a…

3 years ago

US murder rate saw historic increase during Covid-19 pandemic, making 2020 a year with ‘no modern precedent’ – report

Homicide rates jumped by 30 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to the report from the National Commission of COVID-19…

3 years ago

In the post-pandemic era, how shall we live with these smart new robots that claim they’re ‘a person who is not a human’?

One positive development during the Covid pandemic has been the deployment of virus zapping robots and telemedicine to fight the…

3 years ago

Two shocking headlines that sum up Covid: Billionaires MADE $3.9 trillion during the pandemic, while workers LOST $3.7 trillion

In a simple comparison, two headlines seem to say it all about the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis: the…

3 years ago

Robotics company plans to flood pandemic-battered economy with androids to ‘keep people safe’

The company will ramp up production of four models, including Sophia, and its new ‘Grace’ robot which will be sold…

3 years ago

‘Global pandemic alert system not fit for purpose’: WHO report critical of China’s & its own responses to Covid crisis

"What is clear to the panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and…

3 years ago

One mask good, two masks better: Nearly a year into the pandemic, is advocating double masking really the way to reassure people?

To watch the New York Times’ coronavirus coverage over the last few months has been to witness cognitive dissonance in the…

3 years ago

Next few weeks will be ‘worst’ of the pandemic despite national lockdown, England’s chief medical officer warns

The chief medical officer was speaking on BBC Breakfast, as part of his regular Q&A sessions with viewers, shortly after…

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