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    The key to transforming a health crisis

    Oped, Published on 25/04/2024

    » Despite the relentless stream of bad news from around the world, there are still reasons for optimism. One notable example is the renewed push to localise pharmaceutical production in Africa, demonstrating how even catastrophic events like a pandemic can lead to positive, unforeseen outcomes.

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    India election fuels nationalist sentiments

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/04/2024

    » Extreme nationalism always looks foolish or even deranged to those who have not caught the virus, but in India it's now official.

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    A promising turn in the quest to treat long Covid

    News, Published on 25/01/2024

    » A study published this week in Science makes a compelling case that people with long Covid have a chronic imbalance in their immune response. The findings don't explain why that immune response is out of whack, and needs confirming in larger studies. Still, this is an important new piece to the vexing puzzle that is long Covid.

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    How not to hit the road

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/12/2023

    » Tomorrow, millions of holiday makers will hit the road to celebrate New Year. Despite the joyous spirit, mass travelling during the long national holiday period usually leads to a high number of traffic accidents.

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    The biggest threat was at home

    News, Published on 25/12/2023

    » A new trove of data from 7 million contacts have revealed that Covid-19 doesn't spread the way many people think it does.

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    Zero-Covid leaves a long tail in China

    Oped, Published on 28/11/2023

    » For three years, China's zero-Covid policy consistently received high-profile media coverage from the Chinese and the international press. During the first phase of the pandemic, China's mass mobilisation of resources and strict region-wide lockdowns were seen as highly effective. But after vaccines arrived and Western countries resumed normal economic activities, China's ongoing restrictions became a source of growing concern.

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    Just the tonic for Covid

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/10/2023

    » As the country has overcome the coronavirus crisis, interest in promoting research into green chiretta or fah talai jone, a herbal medicine that played a role in treating a large number of patients at the peak of the pandemic, has subsided. This is unfortunate.

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    How we can break free from polio

    Oped, Published on 25/10/2023

    » Eradicating polio has taken far longer than anyone expected. But the last 35 years of efforts to immunise every child against polio represent a major win for global health: a 99% reduction in cases means that nearly 20 million people are walking today who otherwise would have been paralysed.

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    What pandemic preparedness would look like

    Oped, Published on 06/10/2023

    » Humanity was caught off guard by the Covid-19 pandemic, even though we had effectively been warned by smaller-scale outbreaks -- of Sars, Ebola, Mers and avian flu -- for decades.

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    Can Thai passports' power get a lift?

    Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/09/2023

    » At the first cabinet meeting last week, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin announced one of the government's priorities -- improving the power of Thai passports. It is a headline goal that will require extraordinary efforts to achieve. Upgrading a national passport to a higher level involves numerous factors -- economic, socio-cultural, and political -- as well as the general optics of the partnership countries. After all, the large number of visitors to a country is not an indicator of how powerful its passport is. A country might be given more visa-free accessibility and be popular for foreign passports, but its own passport's power can still be low.

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