Top news of the week: 19.10.2021.
Coronavirus
Covid-19: Fatal errors, not fatalism, created UK’s public health disaster
Was it fatalism that allowed 138 000 covid deaths in the UK? Were these deaths bound or decreed to have happened? The answer is, simply, no. Did fatalism kill people in social care, or ...
Tuberculosis deaths rise for the first time in more than a decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis and for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased, according to the World Health ...
China donates COVID-19 vaccines to Burundi
Workers were unloading the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines donated by China in Bujumbura, the commercial capital of Burundi, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Evrard Ngendakumana/Xinhua) …
Aussie scientists abused after speaking about COVID-19, less willing to talk again
(Xinhua/Bai Xuefei) Scientists are facing pandemic levels of abuse for simply trying to help us all wrap our heads around COVID-19. It found that 31 were subjected to trolling in …
Small minority of U.S. Olympians oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandate, say officials
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said on Monday its decision to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for those competing at next year's Beijing Olympics has been met ...
UK made "serious early error" in tackling COVID-19 pandemic: expert
People walk past a rapid COVID-19 testing center in London, Britain, Aug. 30, 2021. (Xinhua/Ray Tang) Anthony Glees, a professor of international politics from the University of …
COVID-19 caused rise in TB deaths for first time in a decade, gains ‘reversed’
Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world - have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health ...
Fights over confidentiality pledge and conflicts of interest tore apart COVID-19 origin probe
Former members of <cite>The Lancet</cite> task force challenge why economist Jeffrey Sachs disbanded effort