But note that we have often tried to eliminate mosquitoes using chemicals, which have horrendous and damaging off-target effects, so removing one species without insecticide is an improvement on that. 但請注意,我們經常試圖用化學物質消...
We can add to this. Jessica Metcalf, an infectious diseases biologist at Princeton University, has proposed a Global Immunological Observatory, 我們可以加上這個。普林斯頓大學傳染病生物學家杰西卡梅特卡夫提出了一個全球...
It sounds like a lot of money, but it will pay for itself when we are able to facilitate the return to a normal kind of working life and economy. 聽起來像是一大筆錢,但當我們能夠幫助他們恢復正常的工作生活和經濟時,這筆...
Vaccine hesitancy produces a terrible toll. In Japan, a fall in the numbers of people taking the HPV vaccine in 2013 (owing to coverage of a cluster of adverse effects) is predicted to lead to 5,000 deaths from cervical cancer that could otherwise ha...
The battle against polio provides a good illustration of the task we face. 與小兒麻痹癥的斗爭很好地說明了我們面臨的任務。 The disease is caused by a virus that mostly affects children, and can lead to irreversible paralysis and...
By the middle of 2020, when there were more than 2.5 million coronavirus cases in the US, and when numbers were growing at an alarming rate, Cuba had reported just 2,448 cases in a population of 11.3 million. 到2020年年中,當美國的新冠病毒...
The team hammers out four key messages. First, the economic argument that is most likely to be repeated in the corridors of power: the returns from investment in healthcare are big. 該團隊敲定了四條關鍵信息。首先,最有可能在權力走...
So that's coronavirus and malaria on our list. What else might we be able to eradicate if we had $1tn to spend? 我們的名單上有冠狀病毒和瘧疾。如果我們有1萬億美元可以支出,那么我們還能根除什么呢? Tuberculosis...
Let's take just one example: healthcare. You could eradicate malaria hell, you could attempt to cure all diseases. 我們來舉個例子:醫療保健。你可以根除瘧疾該死的,你可以嘗試治愈所有疾病。 Let's say our aim is to pr...
Cash injection: could we cure all disease with a trillion dollars? 資金注入:一萬億美元能治愈所有疾病嗎? Could such a large amount of money end the Covid pandemic? Eradicate disease? Provide universal healthcare and fund vaccine r...
Far-right parties do not all hold the levers of power, but they stalk its corridors, releasing their ugly permissions into the mental and social atmosphere. 極右政黨并非都掌握著權力的杠桿,但他們卻在走廊上徘徊,把他們丑陋...
Repeatedly, we see what intimate companions political and sexual coercion can be. 我們不斷看到,政治和性脅迫是多么親密的伴侶啊。 In Spain, the ultra-right Vox party made huge gains in the country's 2019 elections, entering cong...
In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has proclaimed that he will finish the task of the military regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. 巴西總統雅伊爾博索納羅宣布,他將完成1964年至1985年統治巴西軍事政權的任務。 In...
If violence is so rousing, it would seem to be in direct proportion to its power to suspend anything vaguely resembling thought, to release the rush of blood that gives you no time to pause. 如果暴力是如此強烈,那么它似乎與它的力量成...
In this case, revulsion against a sexual felon the revulsion that also appears to have fuelled his own desire and the law were on the same side. 在該案件中,對性罪犯的厭惡這種厭惡似乎也助長了他自己的欲望和法律是站在同...