by Bernd Debusmann | 14 Apr 2020 | Health and Wellness
Some rich nations are making progress in slowing the spread of COVID-19. But a lack of global cooperation threatens the developing world. Homeless people wait in line for food during a COVID-19 lockdown in Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 April 2020. (EPA-EFE/KIM...
by Savannah Jenkins | 2 Apr 2020 | Health and Wellness, Personal Reflections, Podcasts
COVID-19 has forced billions of people into lockdown. Two survivors of earlier crises tell how solidarity and patience are antidotes to fear. Patients receive blood transfusions in Karachi, Pakistan, 1 April 2020. A lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has created...
by News Decoder | 19 Mar 2020 | Health and Wellness
COVID-19 is forcing us to adapt to rapidly evolving circumstances. Two News-Decoder correspondents recount their challenges. People stand in designated areas in an elevator as a social distancing effort, Surabaya, Indonesia, 19 March 2020 (AP Photo/Trisnadi) Two of...
by News Decoder | 18 Mar 2020 | Health and Wellness
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, we confront a most basic question: Will we survive this? We tapped our correspondents for their thoughts. An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, circa 1918 (Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of...
by Allison Daniel | 5 Feb 2020 | Decoders, Economy, Health and Wellness, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
The World Heath Organization has declared the new coronavirus a global public health emergency. What does that mean? And what are the dangers? A man stands along a river in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, 20 January 2020 (AP Photo/Arek Rataj,...