By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer, based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics Amidst the coronavirus lockdown, some of the claims of governments and media have been shown to be exaggerated. Ten years ago, they tried the same thing with swine flu. They haven’t learned their lessons — has the […]
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Saudi Arabia is said to be looking to find a way out of its devastating war in Yemen nearly five years after it led a coalition of Arab States against Houthi rebels backed by rival Iran. The Gulf kingdom is believed to have felt even more isolated after its main regional ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reduced its military presence in Yemen in 2019, in […]
With people all around the world ordered to stay at home to protect themselves from Covid-19, focus has now switched to the potential side effects of so many being confined for an unknown period of time. Many of the downsides to self-isolation are also clear, including loneliness, potential mental health problems, and the inevitability of an increase in families who can’t make ends meet. However, another […]
Via AhvalNews.com, Health experts have warned that Turkey’s coronavirus situation is out of control and that deaths from the disease could soon be on a par with Italy or Spain, reported the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Tuesday. “The recent data on cases and death tolls shows that the situation is out of control in Turkey. If the necessary measures are not taken, Turkey will be like Italy […]
Via Off-Guardian.org, Below is our list of twelve medical experts whose opinions on the Coronavirus outbreak contradict the official narratives of the MSM, and the memes so prevalent on social media. * * * Dr Sucharit Bhakdi is a specialist in microbiology. He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the […]
The duration of the pandemic is different among experts. Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, said earlier this week that the COVID-19 pandemic could be nearing an end as he cited China’s curve flattening to support his hypothesis. Other experts have said there is no clear endpoint, and the virus crisis could be around for months, or even years. So, the trillion-dollar question: Who should we believe?! […]
Everyone that tried to tell us that this pandemic would fade away quickly has been proven dead wrong. Right now, approximately 187 million Americans are under “shelter-in-place” orders as COVID-19 sweeps across the nation like wildfire. There are now more than 43,000 confirmed cases in the U.S., but by the time many of you read this article that number is likely to be far higher. But what is […]
Europe 12:38 GMT 23.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107868/12/1078681228_0:0:1636:919_1200x675_80_0_0_662b73f8fea55739c341c7fade12f39a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003231078681280-italy-holds-consultations-on-russian-experts-engagement-in-covid-19-fight/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Italy has hold the first consultations on using the Russia-provided equipment for COVID-19 fight and on engaging Russian experts in the process, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. “On 23 March, the buildings of the Officer Assembly of the Italian Armed Forces’ Army (in Rome) hosted the first consultations […]
As the coronavirus pandemic places extraordinary strain on national healthcare systems around the world, public health experts are making the case that countries with universal single-payer systems have thus far responded more efficiently and effectively to the outbreak than nations like the United States, whose fragmented for-profit apparatus has struggled to cope with the growing crisis. “It is too soon to see definite outcomes among competing healthcare systems. […]
When historians look back at this time, we suspect that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s landmark decision to order more than 40 million Californians to remain at home on Thursday night will be remembered as an important demarcation point – the beginning of a more heavy handed response as it becomes increasingly clear that too many Americans are simply ignoring the government. So far, NY Gov. Andrew […]
Another enormous program of quantitative easing (QE) ought to benefit bitcoin, both in terms of its reputation as a hedge against centralized changes to the financial system, but also directly, as asset prices gradually rise across the board. While QE may be anathema to crypto hardliners, some experts agree the net effect on prices is positive, one way or another. QE has helped drive up the […]
Representative of the people in Tehran at the Iranian Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei-Golpaygani, died of the coronavirus yesterday morning, local media reported. Seventy-eight-year-old Bathaei-Golpaygani was reported to have lost his life at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for the novel coronavirus. The Assembly of Experts is a body that supervises and appoints the Supreme Leader of Iran. Iran is […]
Top Iranian clerics who are close to the supreme leader have increasingly been testing positive for Covid-19, and one senior cleric has just died from it. Multiple regional news outlets have reported the death Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei-Golpaygani Monay after he tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend, in the very first instance of a member of the powerful Council of Experts diagnosed with the virus. The Council of Experts is the top […]
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Several health experts have eviscerated the UK government’s sluggish response to the coronavirus outbreak, charging that measures only now being taken should have been implemented a month ago. Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet Medical Journal accused the British government of “playing roulette” with people’s lives by not implementing “social distancing and closure policies” sooner. The UK government’s decision not […]
Global energy markets could impact the future of bitcoin, but not strictly in terms of supply or demand. On the surface, the current oil market chaos may appear to be a power struggle between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which have differing views on whether to reduce production to accommodate the slowdown or bury the U.S. shale market by making it too expensive to keep up. “Usually […]
Oil prices saw a partial rebound over the past 48 hours following Monday’s plunge, with Brent up to $37.55 as of mid-day trading on Wednesday, and WTI hitting $33.15. Meanwhile, the world’s top producers – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia, have put their cards on the table regarding how they’re planning to deal with the glut. The fall of oil prices brought on by Riyadh’s […]
While the Trump administration continues to blame China for “covering up” the coronavirus outbreak in December, government failures closer to home have left the US unprepared for the epidemic hitting its own shores, experts fear. Blaming China’s failure to “use best practices” for two months in lost response time to the Covid-19 epidemic, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien lamented on Wednesday that “we could have […]
We haven’t seen anything like this since the last financial crisis erupted in 2008. Wall Street has been gripped by a tremendous amount of fear, and the volatility that we are witnessing would have been unimaginable just a couple of months ago. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,013 points. To put that in perspective, the largest single day decline that we witnessed in […]
It looks as though the temperature “sweet spot” for Covid-19 to spread has been discovered by Chinese researchers, who pin the number at 8.72 degrees Celsius, or about 47.7 degrees Fahrenheit. But other experts are still warning that people shouldn’t “fall into the trap” of thinking that the warmer weather of the summer is going to cause the virus to react or slow, according to the […]
Climate change could become a “catastrophic” threat to global security, as people lose their livelihoods, fall ill and battle over scarce water and food, a host of US security, military and intelligence experts warned on Monday, Reuters reports. Pressures from global warming could intensify political tensions, unrest and conflict, fuel violent extremism and break down government security systems, the experts said in a report by the Center […]
National security and international terrorism experts dismissed the latest salvo in the years-long Russian election interference story line after news broke that the 2020 campaign of Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders was targeted by Russia. “One of the best ways to undermine American democracy is for the media to constantly tell Americans that our democratic system is run by a foreign power, that polls [and] […]
Bernie Sanders on Wednesday raised the possibility that social media accounts harassing his critics may, in fact, be Russian bots operating in disguise. But top security officials say they’ve seen no such activity. The platforms themselves hinted the same. And experts in the field are now saying that the Senator’s inference may cause harm by eroding trust for when such behavior does, in fact, occur. When […]
With half of China’s population facing some level of travel restriction due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Politburo’s attempt to get the country back to work has been slow going and fraught with setbacks. Much of the coverage so far has lingered on Apple’s supply woes and warnings by companies as diverse as automakers and textiles firms about supply chain disruptions tied to factory closures in […]
Authored by Sharon Begley via StatNews.com, At least 550,000 cases. Maybe 4.4 million. Or something in between. Like weather forecasters, researchers who use mathematical equations to project how bad a disease outbreak might become are used to uncertainties and incomplete data, and Covid-19, the disease caused by the new-to-humans coronavirus that began circulating in Wuhan, China, late last year, has those everywhere you look. That can make […]