by Caroline Adana | Dec 1, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Healthcare, Opinion
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, is making governments worldwide prepare for more lockdowns and restrictions. However, there are signs that Omicron might be the best thing that could happen and could signal the beginning of the end of the pandemic. Mild and...
by Graham J Noble | Nov 29, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden’s Nov. 29 press briefing on the U.S. response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 makes one wonder what was so different about the two approaches to dealing with the virus adopted by the current and previous occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.: Bans...
by Mark Angelides | Nov 26, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Healthcare, International, Opinion
With news that a novel variant of COVID out of South Africa is highly mutated, several countries, including the U.K. and Israel, have initiated travel bans from the region. The unusual nature of this variant and the reported amount of mutations mean that scientists...
by Kirsten Brooker | Nov 19, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Who is carving Turkey and giving thanks for family and friends this Thanksgiving? Maybe no one. The far-reaching effects of an ever-changing pandemic have left many a family dining table abandoned – and no life unaffected. It comes down to an almost complete...
by Caroline Adana | Nov 11, 2021 | Articles, Environmental, Opinion
The pandemic lockdowns starved more than a hundred million people, drove people out of work and into drugs, alcohol, and suicide, and caused a rise in child marriages – but the bad news doesn’t stop there. A new study shows that masking and other pandemic-related...