Tag Archives: Covid-19

Journalism, Medicine, Psychology

Covid lawsuits and inquiries loom

EARLIER this month, proceedings opened in Austria in a civil suit brought against the authorities by the widow and son of a man who died of Covid-19 after staying in Ischgl, the ski resort widely regarded as having hosted a super-spreader event early in the pandemic. The week before, former French health minister Agnès Buzyn was ordered by a court to answer, essentially, for the government’s lack of anticipation of the pandemic…

This article first appeared in The Guardian on 29 September 2021. To continue reading, click here.

Journalism, Medicine

The latest investigation into Covid’s origins is also inconclusive

US intelligence services have just briefed the president, Joe Biden, on the results of their 90-day investigation into the origins of Covid-19. They were asked to test two hypotheses: that it had a “natural” origin, or that it escaped from a lab. Preliminary reports suggest that their findings are inconclusive…

This article first appeared in The Guardian on 27 August 2021. To continue reading, click here.

 

 

History of science or medicine, Journalism, Medicine

Brace for the surge

IS there one pandemic, or two? That was a question being asked a year ago, when wealthy countries accounting for only 15% of the global population had 80% of the Covid deaths. Could it be that the rich world was more vulnerable, somehow, because its populations were older, or more individualistic, or had forgotten to be scared of infectious disease…?

This article first appeared in The Guardian on 27 April 2021. To continue reading, click here.