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Europe competing for scarce vaccine supplies in February 2021
02/01/2021
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Covid vaccine roll-out grinds to halt as shortages hit EU
The Times 01/30/2021
Michel Barnier tells EU to step back from Covid vaccine war
The Times 01/30/2021
E.U. and U.K. Fighting Over Scarce Vaccines
NYTimes.com 01/27/2021
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
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Rising prices for homes and cars during the pandemic
09/09/2020
With a limited supply of homes and lost car production, the remaining supply is being sold at higher prices to people who have not lost jobs during the pandemic. The cars are more upscale and the homes are further away from the core parts of cities.
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Car Sales Are Down Almost 20%, but Prices Are Setting Records
WSJ 09/04/2020
Shift of American manufacturing overseas and the disastrous results for jobs, pandemic
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
The New York Times 12/29/2016
California Nears Deal to Adopt a $15 State Minimum Wage
New York Times 03/27/2016
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/2020
Donald Trump Presides Over GOP Remade in His Image
WSJ 08/26/2020
China’s Faux Comparative Advantage
WSJ 04/15/2018
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
The New York Times 02/28/2018
Loan funds fending off distressed debt investors in 2020- signs of the changes underway after coronavirus
06/30/2020
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Lenders to Ailing Companies Circle Wagons to Fend Off Distressed-Debt Investors
WSJ 06/26/2020
The World Health Organization in the crucial early weeks in January and February 2020- failure of the early warning system for coronavirus
06/03/2020
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China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/2020
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/2020
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
"Total" contact tracing's key role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic
05/26/2020
The case of Germany, South Korea, Kerala state in India, Taiwan, show it works to limit spread and helps reopening. Britain after some errors is back to contact tracing as the No. 1 mission, India depends on contact tracing to limit clusters and close them off. France and the U.S. are fumbling with the use of apps and discussions on privacy, where Germany moved ahead with only the phone and no app, low tech as in Kerala, but good health systems which the state has invested in. Britain and France, and the U.S. suffered from neglect of their health systems during the years when tech was "cool" and money got misallocated away from essential public services.
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The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
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‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/2020
French and British preparation for pandemics after SARS and H1N1 and letting austerity policy ditch the preparations by 2019
05/16/2020
France abandoned its effort first ramped up by the SARS pandemic, and utilized in H1N1 pandemic, and ditched this after H1N1 never happened. Britain's effort first ramped up SARS pandemic, continued through H1N1 right into the Cygnus exercize as a rehearsal preparation for a pandemic right into 2016, and lost interest after 2016 with the Brexit struggles in the country. By 2019 both countries were woefully short, China's underreporting, the lack of transparency, added to lack of enough awareness of danger in cruc1al weeks of January and February 2020.
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Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/2020
Finance ministries around the world with trillions of dollars of aid packages for coronavirus and digital taxes
05/15/2020
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Analysis | Why Digital Taxes Are the New Trade War Flashpoint
Washington Post 05/15/2020
Britain's response to coronavirus
05/12/2020
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Unlimited outdoor activity, U-turn on masks: UK unveils lockdown lifting strategy
France 24 05/12/2020
05/11/2020
How will the UK lockdown be eased? Johnson will take it slow tonight. He knows he has just one shot
The Times 05/10/2020
NHS faces waiting list of 7.2 million after coronavirus lockdown
The Times 05/10/2020
Coronavirus: 100,000 dead if UK eases lockdown too fast, scientists warn
The Times 05/10/2020
Millions of Europeans Are on Paid Leave. Governments Are Picking Up The Tab.
WSJ 04/22/2020
France's preparation for the 2002 SARS and 2009 H1N1 influenza with 1 billion masks, speedy response protocol- the lack of any preparation in 2020
05/08/2020
The financial crisis of 2009 and the eurozone crisis shifted attention, led to austerity cuts and abandonment of earlier preparation for epidemics.
Grouped Articles
Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/2020
Underreporting on coronavirus in China and the false sense of security in the U.S., Sweden, Japan, India
04/22/2020
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Opinion | China Still Misleads the World on the Coronavirus
WSJ 04/13/2020
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/2020
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/2020
How "Made in America" was lost in making the chips that power smartphones, laptops and devices in cloud computing
12/22/2020
The story of how America went from making 75% of the world's chips in 1990 for electronic devices to 12% in 2020. And of China's rise from zero or negligible to becoming the largest maker of chips in the same period. The failure to protect American technology is the major lesson from this period as America looks at regaining the advantage and becoming once more the leader in technology and manufacturing.
Grouped Articles
Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant
WSJ 12/22/20
How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company
WSJ 12/22/20
Why Fewer Chips Say ‘Made in the U.S.A.’
WSJ 12/22/20
India and Mohandas Gandhi following the 150th Anniversary
10/04/2020
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Photos: Tracing Mahatma Gandhi’s life on his birth anniversary
Hindustan Times 12/15/20
Protests in U.K. Spark New Scrutiny of British Empire
WSJ 06/15/20
The Forgotten Colonial Forces of World War II
NYTimes.com 09/08/20
Scouts mobilise to defend Baden-Powell statue from removal after activist threats
The Times 10/22/20
Gandhiji never left us, we left him. He is with us, but are we with him?
The Indian Express 10/22/20
British took close to $45 trillion from India in today’s value: S Jaishankar in US
The Indian Express 10/01/19
World War II- the Forgotten Men and Women of India, America and Mexico
09/09/2020
Indian pilots and army numbering 2.5 million who fought aginst Japanese in Imphal, and Germans in Italy. The black women who performed postal duties in Europe for 17 million pieces of mail in the war in England to be delivered to soldiers in Europe, and later at Rouen, France. The Mexican pilots of the 201st squadron attached to the Fifth U.S. Air Force.
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Irresponsible behaviour of youth and young people that fueled the surge in the pandemic in July 2020
07/31/2020
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Coronavirus cluster in western France pits youth against authorities preaching caution
France 24 07/30/20
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/20
The vision of the European Union alive and well - Macron and Merkel in June 2020 responding to the pandemic
06/06/2020
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Europe’s big two kiss and make up for pandemic rescue deal
The Guardian 06/06/20
Germany- low tech coronavirus contact tracing that works for reopening the country
05/27/2020
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Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/20
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/20
Huawei and British 5G networks
05/25/2020
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New inquiry into security risk posed by Huawei technology
The Times 05/25/20
Dr. Redfield, head of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control
05/20/2020
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C.D.C.’s Dr. Robert Redfield Confronts Coronavirus, and Anger
NYTimes.com 03/13/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
The World Health Organization (WHO) and cuts in U.S. funding
05/16/2020
Cuts in U.S. funding over the WHO's handling of coronavirus. Questions are being raised about the transparency, and the competence of the WHO in its handling of coronavirus including its early warning and preparation capabilities that members including Europe and the U.S. relied on in the crisis to their regret.
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Trump Says U.S. Is Considering Restoring Some WHO Funding
WSJ 05/16/20
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/20
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/20
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
Supply chain relocation by France, Britain and the U.S.
05/15/2020
France, Britain and the U.S. remain highly dependent on China for critical infrastructure related supplies. Action is being taken for complete reassessment of the supply chain and relocation back to the home countries and to other locations.
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Covid-19 forces France to look at relocating its pharmaceutical industry
France 24 05/15/20
How underreporting of coronavirus created a false sense of security in the U.S. and Europe, leading to complacency and unpreparedness till it was too late
05/09/2020
Grouped Articles
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/20
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/20
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/20
The Robert Koch Institute and the reproduction ratio in Germany- key to reopening the economy
04/30/2020
Grouped Articles
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/20
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/20
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/20
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