As the World Health Organisation convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, some experts say WHO’s decision to act only after the disease spilled into the West could entrench the grotesque inequities that arose between rich and poor countries during the coronavirus pandemic. … Read More “WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency” »
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On March 20th, 2020, New York’s then-governor Andrew Cuomo issued a “stay-at-home order” requiring residents to confine themselves to their homes in an effort to curb the rapidly spreading Covid-19 virus. At the time, most people had never heard the phrase before, but it soon became part of our collective vocabulary along with “social distancing” … Read More “See Photographs of an Eerily Empty New York City During Lockdown, Compiled for a New Book” »