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The Pandemic

History doesn’t give much reason to be hopeful. “In keeping with the longstanding pattern of political behaviour during pandemics,”  wrote  global health expert David P Fidler of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC, in  Science  on 14 August, “vaccines will eventually reach most populations, but only after powerful countries have protected themselves.” How the race for  Covid-19 vaccine is getting dirty Related Rampant destruction of forests ‘will unleash more pandemics’