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Future of Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waivers Is in Doubt
More than a year after the first Covid-19 vaccines went into use, only 15 percent of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine, and no agreement has been reached on any proposal for intellectual property waivers for the vaccines. Tahir Amin, the cofounder of an organization attempting to reshape patent law to better serve public health, talks about the failures of multilateralism and the structure of the World Trade Organization.
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U.S. Senate: Prosecute Russia War Crimes, not Ours
MARJORIE COHN, [email protected], @m…
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NATO, Russia and Nuclear Threats
Amid warnings from Russia that they will increase force in the Baltic Sea if Finland and Sweden join NATO, Greg Mello, executive director of the nuclear disarmament and environmental protection advocate Los Alamos Study Group, said: “Let us hope that mature voices in Sweden and Finland can dial back these impulsive responses we are seeing to war propaganda that is filling informational channels right now. As Hannah Arendt remarked, where there is no free press, ‘anything is possible.’ That ‘anything’ now includes the extermination of the human race. Everybody needs to stop, investigate what has really been going on, think,…
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Key Covid Coverage Ends as Federal Funds Run Dry
Last month, uninsured people lost access to free Covid-19 tests and treatments after the end of the Health and Resources Administration’s Covid-19 Uninsured Program. Dr. Adam Gaffney says that “the uninsured will now be deterred from obtaining Covid-19 care or treatment––which could contribute to viral spread, or worsen outcomes by delaying care for these vulnerable individuals.”
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Indoor Air Quality and Covid: A Federal Response Finally Gains Momentum
The White House’s recent emphasis on improving indoor air quality to reduce virus transmission has been praised by scientists, including Linsey Marr and Jose-Luis Jimenez. They argue that at the beginning of the pandemic, major public health agencies like the CDC and WHO failed to communicate that the spread of the virus is significantly driven by airborne transmission.
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Networks Covered the War in Ukraine More than the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
“’Astonishingly, the two peak months of coverage of the [2003] Iraq war each saw less saturated coverage than last month in Ukraine (414 minutes in March of 2003 and 455 minutes in April)…'”
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Protests Rock Pakistan Following Imran Khan Charging U.S. Behind His Ouster
While the world’s attention is understandably focused on the crisis in Ukraine, equally grave developments are taking place elsewhere. Perhaps the most consequential — and underreported — is a regime-change operation underway in Pakistan…”
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War Is Not an Excuse to Ignore Climate Change
“The government should place caps on the numbers of barrels of oil, cubic feet of gas, and tons of coal allowed out of the ground and into the economy annually. Those caps would be ratcheted down quickly, year by year, until extraction rates and therefore greenhouse-gas emissions were driven close to zero.”
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Ukraine and International Law: Precedents of Permissibility
Alfred de Zayas, Professor of Law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and former UN Independent Expert on International Order, said today, “Undoubtedly, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine violated article 2(4) of the UN Charter, but there were ‘precedents of permissibility’ established by NATO countries through their aggressive wars against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria — all with total impunity. Bearing in mind that NATO established these ‘precedents of permissibility,’ it is not surprising that other countries follow suit.”
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The Folly of Lifting Mask Requirements for Airlines
Major American airlines want a premature end to the federal transportation mask mandate and the international pre-departure Covid-19 testing requirement. Some public health advocates are promoting a “mask only” section. Abdullah Shihipar weighs in.
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