COVID19 – Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies

The Pandemic and Independent Countries:

CCHS — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:05:47 +0000

The failure of hegemonic neoliberalism, liberal denials and lessons from socialist systems. This book argues (1) that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed as never before the failings of the hegemonic neoliberal approach to public health – those nations which […]

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Cuba’s five COVID-19 vaccines, by Helen Yaffe

CCHS — Sat, 08 May 2021 06:58:28 +0000

“Despite its limited material resources, Cuba is responsible for developing two of only 23 coronavirus vaccines to have entered phase III trials anywhere in the world – and it has another three on the way. Helen Yaffe (University […]

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Cuba Libre to be COVID-Libre: Five Vaccines and Counting, by Dr Helen Yaffe

CCHS — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 01:05:59 +0000

First posted 30 March 2021 at Counter Punch, here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/30/cuba-libre-to-be-covid-libre-five-vaccines-and-counting/ On 23 March 2021, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a group of Conservative Party backbenchers: ‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because […]

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The Spectacular Failure of U.S. ‘Global Health Security’ Rankings, Tim Anderson

CCHS — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:36:23 +0000

Original post here: https://ahtribune.ca/us/americas-collapse/4544-global-health-security.html After one full year of the COVID19 pandemic, with 2.2 million dead and still record numbers of deaths in the USA and UK, a number of lessons about state responses are emerging. One is […]

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COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities, by Meredeth Turshen and Annie Thébaud-Mony

CCHS — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:14:35 +0000

From Monthly review, PDF below, original post is here: https://monthlyreview.org/2020/11/01/the-covid-19-pandemic-exposes-fatal-health-inequities/

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‘Herd Immunity’ is unethical, says WHO chief

CCHS — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:39:06 +0000

From Counter Currents, 13 October 2020, Full article below, original post here: https://countercurrents.org/2020/10/herd-immunity-is-unethical-says-who/ The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the idea of allowing Covid-19 to simply spread through society, calling this “herd immunity” approach to fighting […]

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How the Pandemic defrocked Hegemonic Neoliberalism

CCHS — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:36:00 +0000

By Tim Anderson. This is the lead article in Tim’s book ‘The Pandemic and Independent Countries’, available here: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-pandemic-and-independent-countries The global pretensions of the USA and the UK have been stripped naked by the virus and responses to […]

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La industria biofarmacéutica cubana en el combate contra la pandemia de COVID-19 / The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic (Esp)

CCHS — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:23:26 +0000

The main article is in Spanish, but here is the English abstract: ‘The new coronavirus pandemic has challenged the capacity of health systems in most countries. Cuba’s strategy has recently been analyzed in an article published by President […]

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This wave of anti-China feeling masks the west’s own Covid-19 failures, by Richard Horton

CCHS — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 06:00:46 +0000

“The threat of coronavirus should kindle global cooperation, not a new cold war.” The Guardian, full article below, original post here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/covid-19-cold-war-china-western-governments-international-peace “From the very beginning of this pandemic, legitimate questions have been asked about what Chinese authorities […]

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Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy has resulted in a conclusive disaster, Dr. Marcello Ferrada de Noli

CCHS — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:17:39 +0000

“The Swedish strategy on the Covid-19 has resulted in conclusive failure … defeat in the international epidemiological forum … an ethical defeat … causig thousands of unnecessary deaths … [and] losses in international prestige and credibility … [this] […]

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