Covid-19 does not arrive to a blank canvas. Instead, it snakes through pre-existing queues, igniting sites of vulnerability. As it does, it teaches us that we cannot have a...
Anja Smith | May 2020
During the last two weeks debates and discussions on the direct mortality impacts of Covid-19 relative to the mortality impacts that will flow from the...
Beth Vale | May 2020
In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an ‘epidemiological transition.’ The world was no longer...
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020
As with so much surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated Covid-19 illness, people world over are faced with trade-offs between the individual desire to...
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020
Paradoxically, wide-spread panic about the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, and the associated covid-19 illness does not necessarily lead to sufficient preparedness and action. Wise...