Tag Archives: vaccine apartheid
Exporting risk
I’m torn between admitting that our cynicism about scientists’ solutions for the pandemic is warranted and the palliative effects of reading this Reuters report about seemingly nothing more than the benevolence of richer nations not wasting their vaccine doses: Apart … Continue reading
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Tagged AZD1222, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield, vaccine apartheid, vaccine nationalism
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Anti-softening science for the state
The group of ministers (GoM) report on “government communication” has recommended that the government promote “soft topics” in the media like “yoga” and “tigers”. We can only speculate what this means, and that shouldn’t be hard. The overall spirit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bharatiya Janata Party, COVID-19 pandemic, free press, Gautam Adani, government communication report, Group of Ministers report, independent media, Mukesh Ambani, neglected tropical diseases, Patanjali Ayurved, Principal Scientific Adviser, research and development, S.S. Bhatnagar Award, science journalism, soft topics, tigers, vaccine apartheid, vaccine nationalism, yoga
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