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UK: Calls for "gendered perspective" on COVID-19 conceal class issues


UK: Calls for “gendered perspective” on COVID-19 conceal class issues
more due to the impact of policies introduced to prevent disease transmission.” (emphasis added).
It is difficult to conceive of a more inane, contemptible statement, which would draw a storm of protest were the outcomes reversed. But such is the conclusion of a study by researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE), promoted by the
Guardian newspaper.
Officially, nearly 3.4 million people have died from COVID internationally. This is a vast underestimation due to under-reporting. The
Economist magazine estimates this is at best less than half the total, and at worst one-quarter. Using the total of excess deaths globally, it puts the probable real figure at 10.2 million. ....

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Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics


Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics
FILE - Then-Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, left, speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, April 25, 2016. (Source: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
By Associated Press | May 12, 2021 at 7:21 AM EDT - Updated May 12 at 7:21 AM
GENEVA (AP) — A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.N. health agency should be granted “guaranteed rights of access” in countries to investigate emerging outbreaks, a contentious idea that would give it more powers and require member states to give up some of theirs. ....

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Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics


Panel suggests WHO should have more power to stop pandemics
By MARIA CHENG
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JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press
May 12, 2021 5:09am
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GENEVA A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization s response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.N. health agency should be granted guaranteed rights of access in countries to investigate emerging outbreaks, a conten ....

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