COVID-19

News and hard-hitting, insightful, thoughtful, evidence-based, provocative, and progressive analysis of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Big deal: US judge orders Amazon to “cease and desist” from anti-union retaliation

District court Judge Diane Gujarati ordered Amazon to “cease and desist” from retaliating against employees involved in union organizing, and “post, distribute, and read” the Court's order to employees at the company’s JFK8 fulfillment facility in Staten Island, New York.

Obert Madondo
November 30, 2022

Enduring colonialism has made it harder to end the COVID-19 pandemic

While COVAX has claimed, “no one is safe until everyone is safe,” colonial attitudes remain a key obstacle to global COVID-19 vaccine equity as rich countries in the West continue to hoard life-saving vaccine doses while poor countries of the Global South "become breeding grounds for new COVID-19 variants."

Guest Blog
September 18, 2022

Governments must break Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine

Responding to the recent 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly 300 civil society organizations from around the world issued the following call on governments to break the “Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine”.

Guest Blog
June 17, 2022

Canada delivered only 3.2m of the 40m COVID-19 doses it pledged to poor countries

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a supposedly caring and compassionate "world leader", has so far delivered only 3.2 million (8%) of the 40 million life-saving COVID-19 doses Canada pledged to Africa and other poor regions of the Global South with overwhelming BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people, People of Colour) majorities, according to a damning report released this week by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

Obert Madondo
October 23, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine apartheid: WHO chief calls for moratorium on booster shots

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a moratorium on COVID-19 booster shots for wealthy countries “until at least the end of September" would "enable at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated”.

Obert Madondo
August 5, 2021

WHO: Delta, the most transmissible of current SARS-CoV-2 variants, “is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations”

Delta, the “most transmissible” of the eleven currently identified variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, “has been identified in at least 85 countries, and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations,” according to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Obert Madondo
June 26, 2021

Obert Madondo is an Ottawa-based digital artist, blogger, photographer, graphic designer, web designer, digital rights enthusiast, digital storytelling enthusiast, aspiring filmmaker, and online publisher.

Obert is a former political aide to a prominent former Zimbabwean lawmaker, human rights defender and former freedom fighter. Obert has previously worked as an international development administrator in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, and Canada.

Obert is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Canadian Progressive, an independent political blog dedicated to producing fearless, evidence-based, adversarial, unapologetic, progressive and activism-oriented journalism situated right at the intersection of politics, technology and human rights.

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