After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?
The world was shaken to its core when the Covid pandemic hit in 2019 killing as many as seven million people across the world ...
Denver Westword21m
Stand Up for Science: In Defense of Curiosity
"President Trump and his administration lack the humility required to take an interest in understanding the world around them ...
New Zealand’s record of colonial oppression of the Cook Islands
The New Zealand ruling elite depicts itself as a benevolent colonial ruler defending the Cook Islands from the alleged ...
The Republic2d
Feldman: We’re at a dangerous tipping point on vaccinations
Mounting vaccine complacency is also a danger. With the elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases, so too were the memory ...
Eric Adam, Bill de Blasio & Mitchell Katz: Five years after COVID, recall losses & lessons
On this day, exactly five years ago, we lost the first New Yorker to COVID-19. In the days and weeks that followed, the city ...
Sun Journal13hOpinion
5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease
More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.
Invading Canada Is Not Advisable
Canada is slightly larger than America. That would mean that the “cherished 51st state,” as Trump calls it, would be lopsided ...
scmp.com6d
From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
It spread across the world, aided by the movement of ... They caused empires to fall and new ones to arise. Smallpox first emerged around 68,000 years ago. We have no idea how many people ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch2d
April marks 250th anniversary of American Revolutionary War
April 19 marks 250 years since the first gunfire of the American Revolution rang out at 5:30 a.m. northwest of Boston. It was ...
New York Magazine6d
Can Anything Stop Bird Flu?
Bird flu. With that diagnosis in mind, one of Russo’s colleagues tried to get some bovine samples tested for H5N1, but the ...