We reported on 15 April how US President Donald Trump was following his usual procedure when something goes wrong: blame somebody else. Following his own failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, he blamed everyone he could think of for … Continue reading →
We recently heard the BBC refer to SARS-CoV-2, a name we had not heard before, so we did a little research. On 11 February 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) [1] announced that the name of the … Continue reading →
World Health Organisation (WHO) was created on 7 April 1948, a date now celebrated as World Health Day. WHO now has more than 7000 staff working in 150 country offices, in 6 regional offices and at our headquarters in Geneva. … Continue reading →