Tag: COVID-19

COVID-19 Digital Classrooms Collected Student Data

During COVID-19 school closures, classes took place online, and most digital platforms used tracking technologies that trailed children both inside their virtual classrooms and beyond, across the internet, over time. These various trackers were impossible to avoid or erase even if the child users or their parents were aware that it was happening.

WHO Seeks New Far-Reaching Powers at World Health Assembly

The WHO is seeking to amend the International Health Regulations and impose a global pandemic treaty, both of which would grant the global health body new far-reaching powers that would allow it intervene in the affairs of nation-states in the event of a future pandemic.

Poland Refuses to Buy Extra Vaccines From Pfizer

In Poland, the vaccine campaign has not been as successful as expected. As a result, the government has a stock of 25 million unused vaccines, while an additional 67-70 million doses have been ordered.

Pandemic Economics: Spain the Only EU Country Still Limping from COVID

The Spanish will be, along with the Japanese, the only citizens of a large, developed economy who will end 2022 poorer than in 2019. Although Spain’s economic growth rate for 2022 is higher than both the global and Eurozone average, growing more than anyone is not enough, after having fallen further than everyone else.

Negative Returns for Spanish COVID-19 App

Actual usage of the app for reporting and tracking cases was extremely low. Throughout the two years of the pandemic, just over 1% percent of the 11.6 million cases officially diagnosed in Spain were then reported on the application.