
Health Funding: A Lesson for the Next Pandemic
Health care systems with a high degree of government funding were ill-prepared for the pandemic; systems with a higher degree of private and semi-private funding had a much better capacity to respond.

Health care systems with a high degree of government funding were ill-prepared for the pandemic; systems with a higher degree of private and semi-private funding had a much better capacity to respond.

The violent protests we saw last weekend could mark a significant shift in the mood of what had previously been considered a largely compliant citizenry.

Defeating the pandemic became a matter of national pride, and the wishes, freedoms, and even the lives of individuals become secondary to that aim. Almost anything was permitted—including brutality in pursuit of the aim of winning the fight.

The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had been sued for spreading ‘fake news’ for his earlier claims about the safety of COVID vaccines, but a court excused these statements as free speech.

I will tell you right away, professor Oster: there will be no amnesty. Not a chance. And here is why.

Discussions about COVID-19, vaccine efficacy, racial issues, withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and involvement in Ukraine were targeted.

Meloni’s government has turned the page on COVID-19: as of November 1st, the obligation to wear masks in hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres will be over.

The judgement handed down by the disciplinary chamber is evidence of a significant evolution in the official bodies regulating medicine in France.

Soon, even conservatives will have to ask some unsentimental questions. Where was the royal displeasure when most needed? Where was that counterweight to political power? ‘Locked down,’ is the answer.

Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakušić said the EU Commission’s purchase of 4.5 billion vaccine doses for 450 million EU citizens is the biggest corruption scandal in human history.”