Antonio Navalón Since the beginning of time, governments have served – with greater or lesser effectiveness and for better or worse – for many things. In addition to being entities in charge of imposing order, collecting taxes, and exercising legitimate violence – which is done …
Image: Chinnapong on iStock Juan Villoro 2020 ended submerged in the pandemic. The only thing we can hope for in the uncertain future is that it drifts away from the present. We are in parentheses, something new for a world that was defined by rush, instant gratification, traveling everywhere until recently. Nobody educated us to …
Photo: NastyaSensei on Pexels Juan Villoro Childhood exists so that adult life becomes mysterious. It is not the same to meet a criminal lawyer today as to have met him when he was six years old and was dedicated to killing ants and sometimes eating them (the interesting thing is not that a child does …
Chad P. Bown (PIIE) and Thomas J. Bollyky (Council on Foreign Relations) ABSTRACTMany months after COVID-19 vaccines were first authorized for public use,still limited supplies could only partially reduce the devastating loss of lifeand economic costs caused by the pandemic. Could additional vaccine doseshave been manufactured …
Juan Villoro Each event derives from circumstances that are not always logical. On August 9, 1945, the Bockscar bomber took off from its base in the Mariana Islands to Kokura, on the island of Kyushu, where the Nippon Steel factory, decisive for the Japanese military …
Antonio Navalón In the day after this crisis, what lies ahead is a difficult job, but it cannot be delegated. Before, long before February 2020, States had already entered a phase of accelerated closure and liquidation. This century, the century of knowledge, the century of …
Photo: Ryan De Hamer on Unsplash Antonio Navalón One of the most important cultural breaks that humanity is aware of was the Middle Ages’ passage to the Renaissance. This was a complete change that coincided with the explosion of some of the most important pandemics – for example, the Black Plague – that took place …
An interactive Covid 19 (Coronavirus) visualizer that highlights countries worldwide based on the most recent data, apparently updated in real-time.
Interim Efficacy Results Reported for Third COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate.Interview with Wayne Koff, Ph.D.President and CEOHuman Vaccines ProjectAstraZeneca announced results today from an interim analysis of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate that indicate the vaccine is 70% effective on average, according to an ongoing Phase III trial …