Un groupe de pays riches représentant 13% de la population mondiale a pré-acheté la moitié des futures doses de vaccins contre le Covid-19 (1), selon un communiqué publié ce jeudi 17 septembre par l’ONG Oxfam. Pourtant, tout semble indiquer que le coronavirus qui fait trembler le monde pourrait s’imposer comme
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Ce n’est pas parce que quelques réinfections par le COVID-19 ont commencé à apparaître parmi plus de 23,69 millions de cas de coronavirus documentés dans le monde que cela signifie qu’une première infection par un coronavirus ne protège pas contre de futures maladies ou qu’un vaccin ne contribuera pas à
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Au printemps dernier, alors que des pays du monde entier mettaient en place des ordonnances de confinement afin d’aplatir la courbe de contagion du coronavirus, nous avons pu constater en temps réel à quel point nos systèmes de transport et de distribution sont imbriqués. Il était stupéfiant de voir à
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Like a police investigation, the epistemologist Vincent Israel-Jost worked for UP' Magazine on the incredible controversy caused by Hydroxychloroquine in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis and was able to dissect, in its most intimate springs, the speech system of the most famous professor in France: Didier Raoult. EXCLUSIVE With
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Dominique Costagliola is Deputy Director of the Pierre-Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (Sorbonne University, Inserm). Member of the French Academy of Sciences, she is a member of the scientific board of the REACTing consortium. She gives an update on Covid-19 therapies still in the pipeline. The results of the studies that have been conducted
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British, Canadian and US security officials announced on Thursday 6 July that hackers linked to Russian intelligence services were actively trying to steal information from researchers working on the production of coronavirus vaccines. Paul Chichester, Director of Operations, National Centre
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Will the Covid-19 crisis be a brutal episode followed by a quick return to the " normale "? Or will it lead to a shaking and a deep mutation of the world economy, as well as of the political systems and sociaux ? While it seems to be dissipating in European countries, the epidemic has never been so
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During Covid-19, the climate crisis continues. It gets worse. The media, all focused on the pandemic have forgotten it a little, but the climate crisis has not disappeared and extreme events have multiplied around the world in recent weeks. They occur at the worst
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The U.S. has purchased virtually all of the stockpile of the promising treatment that could speed the recovery of Covid-19 patients, leaving none for other countries around the world, reports The Guardian. Remdesivir is the first drug approved by the competent authorities in the United States to treat Covid-19,
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Small habits that will tend to disappear, profound changes in the ways of consuming, emergence of a "Covid Generation"? The health crisis raises the question of tomorrow's new trends in terms of consumption and, in particular, food. Agribashing, mistrust of industrial brands, distrust of retailers, arrival of new players, etc.
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But what happened on June 22nd, the day the cultural venues in Paris (which became a green zone on June 15th) reopened, there were so few shows, almost no songs? Even more astonishingly, the first part of the month was the same.
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The ordeal of Covid-19, marked by the confinement of half the world's population and the halt of the economy, was not only unprecedented in history. It was brutal and had a strong impact on all our lifestyles, including our most basic freedoms. What will be left of this period
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Is the Covid-19 crisis the marker of an imminent collapse of our civilization? The crisis linked to the pandemic has brought a wind of collapse that would have convinced new followers. What if the story of the future collapse of our civilisations was the new avatar of French pessimism?
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The fourteenth edition of the annual report on the Global Peace Index, the leading measure of global peace, reveals that in 2020, the average level of world peace has deteriorated for the ninth time in 12 years. A total of 81 countries have improved their situation
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After the collective shock of the coronavirus epidemic, nothing can be the same anymore. The living reality imposes itself on us. Planetary and ecological logics force us to review our ways of innovating, exchanging and investing. We must reconsider our projects. So, can this health crisis we have just gone through change the way we live?
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Medicine, biology, genetics, pharmacology, zoology, but also environmental sciences are of course in the front line in the fight against Covid-19. But, in the face of the coronavirus, and unlike the previous major epidemics that have hit the planet since the beginning of this century - avian flu, SARS, influenza, etc. - the virus is not a new phenomenon.
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At the end of May, when the Prime Minister has just announced a new deconfinement package, it is useful to make an initial transitional assessment of the Covid-19 epidemic. For Professor Jean-François Toussaint, who signs the following article, from the beginning of the crisis,
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We can read and rethink everything through the Covid crisis: our institutions, our economic dynamics, our ecological and social policies. We can also read contributions from almost all sciences. Much has been said about the role of certain mathematical applications related to artificial intelligence.
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In our post-viral world, major issues concerning the environment, education, and international relations arise. UNESCO has invited leading women thinkers, specialists in fields ranging from climatology to international relations, physics and African studies, to express their vision of the challenges and opportunities.
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The acuity of the historical nature of the coronavirus comes largely from the triple conjunction of the immediacy of its impact, the consequences of its global magnitude and the evidence of its transformative nature. With a swiftness and certainty rarely so combined in international relations, there is a palpable consensus that the coronavirus is the most powerful virus of all.
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