Bacolod business owners calls on LGU to end lockdowns
The Bacolod Employers' Union (BEU) has called on the government to end the lockdown in the city. In a post...
Societal Impact
7.6 million Filipino families went hungry amid COVID-19 crisis
7.6 million (or 30.7% of all) Filipino households have experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the last three months,...
Will evidence-based medicine be another casualty of COVID-19?
The following editorial article by Professor Roger Watson and Dr. Niall McCrae looks at some of the evidences for and...
How COVID-19 changed clinical medicine
In this article was written by Professor Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of...
Peru: The country with the world’s strictest lockdown also has the worst excess deaths
Peru may have faithfully employed lockdowns, but it has failed to control the coronavirus. This article published by The Telegraph...
New study: Millenials overestimate their COVID-19 risk
The following article written by Daniel Horowitz reports on a newly published study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic...
UN: The first coronavirus famines are in our doorstep
Four chronically-deprived conflict-ridden countries are in danger of experiencing widespread crisis which endangers the lives of millions of women, men,...
The silent pandemic: rape and domestic violence
In this article published on June 17, 2020, by Vera Files, author Elizabeth Lalorga talks about the increased incidence of rape...
Jollibee to close 255 stores
Jollibee Food Corporation (JFC) has announced that it will close 255 stores after suffering from a net loss of 11.96...
Ramesh Thakur: I am concerned that a majority of people can be terrorized into surrendering their individual freedoms
Ramesh Thakur is an academic and a former UN Undersecretary General. He is best known for the Responsibility to Protect...