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The Coronavirus Pandemic Holds a Mirror to Our Culture’s Shameless Classism

Luxury quarantine is now a curious side effect of the Covid19 pandemic: The Delhi government is allowing people to use hotels near the airport as paid quarantine centers to socially...

Respectfully Disagree: Is Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic an Individual or State Responsibility?

...passionately differ on. From panic stockpiling, to quarantining, to communicating information, in this week’s episode, the team thinks through the pandemic and the role of the individual v/s the state....

By The Swaddle Team

Pandemic Patois

‘Blursday,’ ‘Covidiot,’ ‘Doomscrolling’ — How the Covid19 Pandemic Changed the English Language Forever

...however, the coronavirus pandemic and all the responses to it took over not just the world, but our language, too. In March, for example, the word “coronavirus” was everywhere, overtaking...

It’s Now Illegal to Say ‘Coronavirus’ In Turkmenistan

...banned all mention of the coronavirus pandemic from casual conversation, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The Central Asian country maintains it has no coronavirus cases. To that end, any...

Hungary Introduces Anti‑Trans Bill While the World Is Distracted by Coronavirus

...in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Covid19 pandemic might be an all-consuming phenomenon right now, but we cannot let bigoted lawmakers use it as a diversion to get...

It Doesn't Matter

Why People Feel the Need to Blame China For the Pandemic

...be seen reflected in the way conspiracy theories regarding the coronavirus pandemic evolved. As the pandemic spread and claimed more lives, people started suspecting whether the coronavirus was born in...

Why People Are Wishing Coronavirus On Horrible Personalities

...world would be better off without him. The coronavirus pandemic may have cast a pall over the spirit of the world population, and a rising number of cases and deaths...

Absolutely False

Debunking the Myths About Covid19

...they’re strong enough to protect against Covid19. Exposure to pathogens can provide some immune benefits – but not against the novel coronavirus. Evidence overwhelmingly suggests ongoing exposure to coronavirus doesn’t...

By The Swaddle Team

Covid19 Pandemic Caused More “Mass Trauma” Than World War II: WHO

...it affects communities for many years to come.” The coronavirus pandemic, which has been classified as a traumatic event, can lead to “mental morbidity symptoms” (the deterioration in psychological and...

By Saumya Kalia

Lockdown No Bar

Amid the Covid19 Pandemic, Volunteers Risk Their Health to Rehabilitate Delhi Pogrom Survivors

...was helping with relief work at a camp set up for people displaced by the pogrom when the coronavirus pandemic hit India. Soon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day-lockdown,...

By Meghna Prakash

Llama Antibodies Are A New Frontier In the Search for A Coronavirus Vaccine

...or human trials using llama antibodies have not begun yet, the research, published in the journal Cell, shows llama nanobodies could be pathbreaking in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. ...

Clubbed Together

Germany Asks 4,000 People to Attend Concert as a Coronavirus Experiment

Germany is trying out an experimental concert simulation to assess how countries can go back to hosting large-scale, crowded events amid the coronavirus pandemic. Part of its Restart-19 project, and...

We're All Going To Get It

Stop Vilifying Kanika Kapoor. We Gain Nothing From Stigmatizing Illness.

...have the coronavirus, seeking to shame them on social media. These behaviors, while stemming from the panic that the current pandemic has caused, are creating an atmosphere of stigma and...

The Doctor Must See You Now

How Doctors Are the Unwitting, Frustrated Soldiers in the War Against Covid19

...are exposed, unprotected and even antagonized for doing the job they’re outwardly exalted for. They say the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the cognitive dissonance with which this country treats...

Progress Undone

Covid19 Pandemic Can Throw Half a Billion People Into Poverty: Oxfam

The coronavirus pandemic could undo 30 years of progress we’ve made on tackling poverty. As economies around the world tank due to social and economic halts arising out of Covid19...

Essential Service

Sanitation Workers on the Frontlines of the Pandemic Are Overlooked, Unprotected

...after six months and, if needed, to be fixed or replaced. But even before the pandemic hit, this regulation was seldom followed. “We are exposed to lethal bacteria and viruses...

By Varsha Torgalkar

Forewarned Is Forearmed

The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Reached India. Here’s What You Need to Know.

...Wipe Out 5% of World Economy What is a coronavirus? Coronaviruses are a family of viruses known to infect mostly animals, but which are capable of jumping over the species...

By Pallavi Prasad

Another One Bites The Dust

Singer, Anti‑Vaxxer M.I.A. Says She’d Choose Death Over Coronavirus Vaccine

...people from Covid19 — which is somehow against her position? — despite scientists stressing this isn’t true, and toiling to find one for the novel coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic is...

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