Tourism in post-pandemic Asia: Vaccine passports, domestic tourism, and pricey flights
In this January 2, 2020 article for the South China Morning Post author Kok Xinghui reports on the predictions of...
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New York bill proposes removal and detention of people with contagious diseases
New York assemblyman Noah Nicholas Perry introduced recently a bill that will amend the New York public health law. In...
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...
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,...
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...
20% of Filipinos go hungry amid COVID
A recent survey conducted by the SWS discovered that 5.2 million or 20.9% of Filipinos have experienced involuntary hunger over...
Oxfam: The hunger crisis linked to the coronavirus could kill more than the disease itself
A new report published by Oxfam, estimated that 12,000 people per day could die from hunger as a result of...
10 million children may never return to school after coronavirus
An entire generation of children had their education disrupted with the imposition of lockdowns worldwide. But even as some countries...