How many deaths will the coronavirus cause? No one is yet able to answer this question, but in the worst-case scenario, it could number in the millions around the world, warn experts, who therefore stress the importance of measures such as containment. Time is running out in the face of a
PlusThe current events linked to the global spread of the coronavirus should provide an opportunity for personal and then collective reflection on what is known as globalisation, which is merely a consequence of the unbridled technical and economic growth of the last fifty years. Today, nature is reminding us to
PlusIn these times of containment, with the spread of the coronavirus and the suspension of classes in schools, teleworking is encouraged in most companies. The result? Parents have to juggle their roles as parents and workers simultaneously. How can parental burnout be avoided? Two researchers
PlusOn 6 March, the results of a national survey on the degree of psychological distress of the Chinese population following the Covid-19 epidemic were published in the specialist journal General Psychiatry. Eight days later, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet also published a review of the literature.
PlusUntil now, official figures seemed to indicate that sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of more than 1 billion, had been lucky. The interactive map of reported cases of COVID-19, managed by Johns Hopkins University, shows large red spots almost everywhere - except in sub-Saharan Africa. But today, the first
PlusThe pandemic is hitting the world. Everybody. Like a scourge of fate. In reality, this crisis is a product of our way of living the world. By extending the limits of our human habitats into the wilderness, we have not only destroyed biodiversity, but have also entered into a new era.
PlusAcross Europe, the weekend of 14 March will mark a turning point in the approach to the coronavirus crisis. States of alert, population confinement, bans on going out, social distancing measures are being announced one after the other. Europe closes shop and Schengen collapses: Germany restores its
PlusWhat can a philosopher have to say in the midst of a pandemic crisis? Probably not much, if we consider that the conversation is exclusively reserved for scientists trying to provide cold answers to all human questions - whereas for the philosopher, it seems rather like there is
PlusFrance is not China. Not so much because of its geographical size or economic power, but because of its culture and the way of life and behaviour of the French. The coronavirus is reshuffling the maps of the hierarchy of needs, without revolutionizing everyday habits. It is
PlusEmmanuel Hirsch is Professor of Medical Ethics and President of the Council for Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity at the University of Paris-Saclay. In this forum for UP', he proposes the organization in the coming days of a citizens' convention to allow urgent consultation on the choices that will be imposed on our country.
PlusIn the unstable context of the beginning of the year 2020, Covid-19 appears as a remarkable inflection point which reshuffles the maps of the hierarchy of needs. Remarkable because it concerns the entire world population, without distinction of social level, consumption tastes, age or gender.
PlusWhen maps of greenhouse gas emissions in China, before and after the Coronavirus outbreak, were published, some people immediately shouted victory. When traffic stops, when factories stop running, when people are locked in their homes, the air becomes
PlusShould we be afraid? The coronavirus is the subject of all our conversations, not news bulletins without counting the sick, the dead, the measures taken by this or that government. To stop, if not eradicate, what seems to have become a strange paranoia with unpredictable consequences. Locking up cities, fencing off more
PlusLe coronavirus nous met face à un grave problème. Cependant, il faut se souvenir que l’une des premières victimes du coronavirus aura été l’économie. S’il est important de rendre compte de l’évolution de la situation, il faut également mettre l’accent sur les informations positives. Et elles existent aussi : voici dix
PlusThe coronavirus of Chinese origin is spreading, triggering epidemics in many countries at the same time, and now threatens to spread around the world like a full-blown pandemic. All the governments of the states in which patients have been identified are announcing that the spread is inevitable and that it is
PlusCela aurait pu être un pangolin. Ou une chauve-souris. Ou, comme le suggère une théorie maintenant démystifiée qui a fait le tour du web, un serpent. La course pour identifier la source animale de COVID-19, le coronavirus qui piège actuellement plus de 150 millions de personnes dans des quarantaines et
PlusThe coronavirus COVID-19 continued to spread on Wednesday across the world which, according to a WHO expert, "is simply not ready to deal with it". The December epidemic in central China has already reached a peak in that country, where it infected some
PlusAs the coronavirus-COVID-19 accelerates its spread around the world, as WHO warns of the risk of a pandemic, as stock exchanges around the world panic, governments are taking action. The risk of a major public health crisis calls for measures of restraint, containment, surveillance and monitoring that will be necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.
PlusEvery day the number of people infected and deaths due to coronavirus passes a milestone. China is by far the most affected region in the world, despite the exceptional measures that the country has taken. Draconian measures to lock up tens of millions of people in
PlusL’épidémie de coronavirus Covid-19 en cours, qui a débuté à Wuhan à la fin de l’année dernière, illustre bien la menace que représentent les maladies infectieuses émergentes, non seulement pour la santé humaine et animale, mais aussi pour la stabilité sociale, le commerce et l’économie mondiale. Ces perturbations se produisent dans
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