PORTO ALGREE, Brazil – Brazil is preparing to fight a new Covid-19 variant from Amazon that threatens to send shock waves around the world. With less than%% of the world’s population, Brazil currently accounts for about a third of the world’s daily deaths from Covid-1, a new variable. More than …
Read More »Friday’s jobs report will be released on the closed stock market – the only 12 times since 1980
Good Friday is next week and the markets will be closed as usual. What is unusual, however, is that the U.S. And with financial exchanges closing in some other parts of the world, the government is preparing to release a major report on employment amid the epidemic. Why is the …
Read More »Heard immunity won’t save us – but we can still beat Kovid-19
The idea of ”mob immunity” against Covid-19 has gained almost magical status in popular imagination. Once we reach that threshold, many Americans believe, we will be clear, and the epidemic will eventually fade into history. But we are not likely to reach the immune system of the crowd with Kovid-19. …
Read More »Europe’s dislike of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout stalls and epidemic grinds on
BERLIN – Susan Tabbach seems to be drinking water. She works full-time and cares for three young children at home during the downfall, while worrying about her elderly parents, who are not vaccinated. She is less likely to be relieved. “I’m tired,” says a one-year-old architect from Aachen, a German …
Read More »Capitalism is what will defeat Kovid
Look at the paradox of this epidemic moment: big corporations are political villains, embedded on the left and right. Still, the main and perhaps only, because the Covid-19 curse is simple, are the vaccines developed by Big Pharma. Few people are more aware of this contradiction than J. Paranson and …
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