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Health researchers estimate that every year 8 million people die an early death due to smoking. This means that 15%(!) of global deaths are attributed to smoking.Smoking causes incredible suffering
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'Material Footprint' seems to me a bad metric for our impact on the environment.Some resource use is much more harmful and to treat a kg of sand just like a
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I agree with the goal of a “people’s vaccine” – we need vaccines for the entire world.But I don’t see how these proposals would get us there.It seems to me
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How to accelerate vaccine availability during a pandemic?A new working paper by the experts on that question https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BFI_WP_202108.pdfThe good news: “even at this late stage, investment to expan
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1/ It is wrong to believe that the number of excess deaths is necessarily a good measure for COVID deaths.When the number of excess deaths is lower than the number
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1/ If we had more vaccines we could bring an end to the deaths and lockdowns.We could have produced these vaccines last year if governments had taken the risk to
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As we show in our testing data, many countries in Africa do not test widely.I think this could mean that the COVID death toll on the African continent is substantially
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This study estimates the cost to produce the missing vaccines to protect *the entire world* from COVID.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/1/3/htmFacilities to produce 16 billion doses of a Moderna type vaccines would only cost
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It was wrong to believe that 'saving the economy' was an alternative to 'saving people's lives’.If anything it is the other way around and the two goals go together so
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Out of a group of 500 people over the age of 80 one dies within a week.→ This means it will happen often that a person who was just vaccinated
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What is going on with the vaccination campaigns?Pfizer/Biontech said that they’d provide 50 million doses worldwide within 2020.There are other vaccines too.Now, one day before the end of 2020, we
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Fantastic news from the UK! The coronavirus vaccine designed by scientists at the University of Oxford has been just been approved for use in the UK.https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55280671 What’s great about this
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