By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Viruses are in no way picky. They devastate neighborhoods and nations, infecting whomever they can, and the new Coronavirus is, by no means, an exception. The ravages and pain of the present pandemic is already ...
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Feed SubscriptionMight There Be A Higher Death Toll From Neglect Of Other Diseases, For Fear Of Contracting Covid-19?
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist After almost two months-plus into a worldwide coronavirus lockdown, medical personnel believe that the pandemic has brought about a silent sub-epidemic of people, who need care at hospitals, but are afraid to go in. Yes, ...
Read More »Recognizing The Sacrifices Of Our Unsung Essential Workforce
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Let me confess, up front: I am anxious about going to public places now. I am standing in line, looking at the person in front of me, and listening to the one behind me for ...
Read More »It Took A Virus To Show The Plight Of The Most Vulnerable Among Us: Their Deaths In Quebec Are A Resounding Call For A Thorough Healthcare Overhaul
“A nation’s greatness is judged by how it treats its weakest members” — Mahatma Gandhi By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist In the midst of the current pandemic, the words emanating from the lips of relatives, shocked Quebecers, and throughout the ...
Read More »What Will Be The Lasting Image Of The Coronavirus Pandemic?
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist When accidents happen, murderers strike or a natural disaster rushes up on us, there are certain images we remember, pictures we recognize. Our minds wrap very easily around them, and there are pictures that we ...
Read More »Trump’s Halting Of WHO Funding Is More Than Regrettable; It’s Dangerous
By Charles Mwewa Guest Contributor On April 14, 2020, US President, Donald Trump, suspended funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), for reasons that make no sense, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump is “… accusing WHO of mismanaging ...
Read More »COVID-19 War: Third World War
By Charles Mwewa Guest Contributor The nations are at war, not against each other This is not a battle between brother and brother There are no flash philosophies, no ideologies There are no apologies, and no mythologies The cure is ...
Read More »Did The Pan American Health Organization And World Health Organisation Engage In COVID-19 Misinformation?
By Annan Boodram Guest Contributor The majority of coronavirus patients were infected, by someone, who wasn’t showing any symptoms of the deadly virus (asymptomatic persons), a new study of cases in China found. Researchers, from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...
Read More »COVID-19: The World In Mourning
By Charles Mwewa Guest Contributor The sooner the sun rises and sets, someone has died Like vapor they go, with or without having goodbyed There’s no funeral home, no morgue to contain them There’s yelling for grandpa, for little Moses, ...
Read More »Health Workers Are The Frontline Soldiers Against Covid-19; Let’s Protect Them
By Mutahi Kagwe and Siddharth Chatterjee Guest Contributors NAIROBI, Kenya, April 3, 2020 (IPS) –– Many soldiers have seen, first-hand, the horrors of war and, terrifying though it often was, they knew who they were fighting, and could recognise their ...
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