In this episode Reva Yunus and Aleida Borges talk about the gendered aspects of a very ‘punitive’ pandemic response, especially in the Global South. Dr Aleida Mendes Borges also talks about the book, “Pandemic response and the cost of lockdowns. Global debates from humanities and social sciences”, which she co-edited with Peter Sutoris, Sinéad Murphy […]
This film, by Kunal Purohit and Abeer Khan (biographies below) for Collateral Global, cuts to the heart of CG’s research agenda: understanding the enormity of the harms which lockdowns brought about among vulnerable populations in the Global South. The education loss among poor kids in Low- and Middle-Income Countries has been nothing less than devastating, as […]
In this CG Conversation, Dr Jennie Bristow talks to Professor David Livermore about the consequences of lockdowns and social distancing restrictions for the fabric of social life. As we move on from the pandemic itself, to what extent have the behaviours and mores of pre-Covid times changed? On one hand, dystopian fears about the end […]
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Childhood vaccination disruptions illustrate how detached from reality, rationality, & morality response measures have become.
We must mind the gap between reasonable restrictions and state paternalism
Andreas Sönnichsen, MD Download full article here Background In March 2020 the Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz proclaimed that within weeks “everybody will have a family member or good friend dead due to COVID and Austria will face the horror of tens of thousands of deaths”. With these statements Austria went into lockdown on March 16, […]
Professor Toby Green speaks with University of Nairobi lecturer Dr. Reginald M.J. Oduor on the impact of Covid-19 measures in Kenya
Q&A with the filmmakers of CG's newest film 'Sex Workers in India: The Impact of Lockdowns'
ARTICLE - The Covid Consensus book launch in partnership with Collateral Global.
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ARTICLE - The Covid care-homes scandal
Professor Toby Green and Dr Samuel Adu-Gyamfi discuss the catastrophic impacts Covid lockdown policies have had in Ghana
Allyson Pollock, Carl Heneghan, and Paula Byrne discuss key policy questions around vaccine mandates
Professor of Public Health Allyson Pollock discusses the pitfalls of mass PCR testing.
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