France advances in disguise. Not always on time for those on the front lines of priority and essential care and services, but it is increasingly visible on the streets of Paris, in particular, despite the inconsistency of the recommendations. Curious mix of security and anxiety, duality between protection and
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In addition to the health risks it poses to everyone, the Covid-19 pandemic is causing a partial or total loss of income for many. The French Movement for a Basic Income (MFRB) considers it more necessary than ever to establish a sustainable universal income. This is what Spain has just done:
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More than 70,000 dead, 4 billion people confined, a planetary fear: the three months since the first suspicions of the appearance in China of a new coronavirus have plunged the world into a scenario worthy of a disaster movie. From President Macron hammering on television "We are at war! »
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Whether you live in an apartment in the heart of the city or in a detached house on its outskirts, there are three types of cultural models that characterize the way you live at home. They determine the boundary between public and private spaces. They are the basis of our social identity. Finally, they organize intra-family relations in the home.
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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All the world's whistle-blowers, the Greta Thunberg, the IPCC experts, the green, yellow or blue activists, the defenders of the Paris Agreement, the greenest of environmentalists, all are just small arms. They are beaten to a pulp. A virus has managed to make this
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On April 5, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City was found to test positive for COVID-19, along with six other tigers and lions, with symptoms consistent with the disease. This detection of the new coronavirus in a wild animal is an important step in the fight against the disease.
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Epidemiological studies suggest that the world's oldest vaccine, the BCG used against tuberculosis, may reduce the risk of coronavirus infection as well as the risk of severe forms of Covid-19 disease. Professor Camille Locht, director of INSERM research at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, is the author of this study.
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The United States has taken the option of having hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine manufactured, even before clinical trials have begun. They want to be ready for the market before others are. A risk in the form of a poker strike.
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British American Tobacco, the manufacturer of cigarette brands such as Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, said a potential vaccine against coronavirus was being developed from tobacco plants. According to the firm, tobacco plants cannot, by their nature, be used to produce a vaccine,
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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What could a world organized in an ecological way look like? It is from this challenge that Wildproject editions proposes in free access Marin Schaffner's book, "Un sol commun : Lutter, Habiter, Penser". This pedagogical and radical book allows to understand all that ecology is in
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A coalition of scientists, physicians, policy makers, ... has been formed to accelerate research on the prevention and treatment of VIDOC-19 in low- and middle-income countries. A challenge of unparalleled magnitude, particularly in terms of the ethics of research in the context of a health emergency
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The world is facing a tragedy like no other. It would be legitimate to think, as a result, that our horizons are clouded and more uncertain than ever. On the contrary, many people are taking advantage of this moment when time, and everyone's lives, are like
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment that it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by some of the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the epidemic.
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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Disruptions in agricultural commodity markets, lack of arms in the fields, inadequate protection of food workers against coronavirus: in a rare joint statement, the leaders of the three multilateral organizations responsible for food, health and trade, FAO, WHO and WTO, warn against
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This Breton startup, Hemarina, has developed a molecule derived from a marine worm to transport oxygen in the blood. For Dr. Franck Zal, who made this discovery, it is a "molecular respirator" that could replace the artificial respirators that are sorely lacking for treating
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Jacques Attali has got us used to predictions that have often come true. The current pandemic is causing two tsunamis, health and economic, to hit the world. If the powers that be in the West prove unable to control the tragedy that is beginning, the whole system of power based on the "human rights" principle will be destroyed.
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In the midst of the crisis, Europe is in a state of shock. Italy, Spain and France, in particular, are experiencing an extremely deep sadness and a sense of powerlessness to help the most vulnerable, and in particular the elderly in our societies, despite health and social care systems that have been weakened by the crisis.
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