When it comes to ripping out forests, dodging environmental restrictions and heavy handed tactics towards indigenous protests, the global timber giant, Samling, leads the field. However, when it comes to the subtler arts of communication, specifically disinformation known as 'Black PR', the Sarawak loggers appear out of their depth...
Doctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand — often antibiotics that arent used in other countries for Covid-19. Whats more, the chaos of overrun hospitals means staff cant always take precautions to ensure infections dont spread from one patient to the next.
Excessive use of the world’s most potent antibiotics has stoked drug-resistant infections in India for years. Now the country’s Covid crisis has put the calamity into hyperdrive. A first look at how many patients hospitalized during India’s first coronavirus wave also developed bacterial and fungal infections found that a small but alarming proportion harbor germs that resist multiple drugs. Doctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand often antibiotics that aren’t used in other countries for Covid-19. What’s more, the chaos of overrun hospitals means staff can’t always take precautions to ensure infections don’t spread from one patient to the next.