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Treatments on the horizon and lessons for the next pandemic

Posted by: The Conversation Global

Date: Friday, 26 June 2020

 

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest and worst relay race in history. Without vaccines or reliable treatment on the horizon, when the curve goes down in one region it goes up in another. Prevention and isolation measures remain the most effective ways to control the curve. But the disease continues to affect not only human health, but all aspects of our lives.

The Conversation’s international network is working with researchers around the world to report on the latest science, the economy, and the impact of the pandemic in various parts of the world. Here’s our weekly round up.

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Coronavirus weekly: treatments on the horizon and lessons for the next pandemic

Elba Astorga, The Conversation

The pandemic is still raging. Health, money, work, relationships, environment have changed throughout the world, and perhaps permanently so.

Business + Economy

Buhari’s COVID-19 economic plan: old wine in new wineskins

Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College

President Buhari's Post COVID-19 economic recovery plan is neither novel nor ground-breaking.

South Africa’s budget to deal with COVID-19 fails to pave way for more equal society

David Francis, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand

The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.

Politics

Canada needs to reckon with the relics of its colonial past, including racist statues

David MacDonald, University of Guelph

As anti-racism protests take aim at statues of slave owners and racist figures, Canada needs to reassess how it remembers its past.

The ICC’s rejection of Bemba’s compensation claim points to need for reform

Tonny Raymond Kirabira, University of Portsmouth; Leïla Choukroune, University of Portsmouth

The court's decision has wider implications for international criminal law.

Nepal is caught in the middle of India-China border tensions

Promod Tandan, University of Westminster

Nepal is angry that India is encroaching into the Kalpani region of the Himalayas, which Nepal claims as its own.

Black Lives Matter in Jamaica: debates about colourism follow anger at police brutality

Henrice Altink, University of York

The killing of George Floyd has sparked debates in Jamaica about police brutality – and class and colour.

Science + Technology

Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future pandemics

Pamela Soltis, University of Florida; Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico; Richard Yanagihara, University of Hawaii

Genetic information that could help finger the next infectious threat is stored in museums around the world.

How fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media – and what you can do about it

Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University

A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.

Environment

Microscopic animals are busy distributing microplastics throughout the world’s soil

Tancredi Caruso, University College Dublin

Our research on a remote Antarctic island found microplastics in the intestines of tiny animals.

How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans

Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC; Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo

Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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