Zero Covid

What happens when communities compete to achieve elimination? According to data from the most populous state of India, Uttar Pradesh (UP), competition works. The number of cases there has just fallen below 20 cases per day in the past...

The French have made great efforts over the past few months in the fight against COVID-19. We are even among the twenty or so countries that are champions of vaccination. The fact remains that we still do not know how to...

World Health Network and Covid Action Group Press Release

Most countries are taking woefully insufficient measures to win the fight against the coronavirus spread. Contrary to many official statements, vaccines alone will not allow us...

44 times more deaths, 2021 second-quarter GDP set back several years, weakly defended freedoms, reduced mobility: the G10 anti-COVID strategy is on the losing end in every respect

Paris, August 19, 2021 – The Institut économique...

Covid Action Group Podcast - Episode 1

Guest: Prof. Dr. Matthias F. Schneider Producer and Host: Alex Milne

Summary

Despite all we know about how to fight the virus, the western world has largely failed to contain its...

(English translation of the German original)

The return to face-to-face teaching will only succeed if the three basic pillars of pandemic control are followed for the fall.The concept behind this is called "Vaccinate-PLUS".

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CP: Until the surge last April, India was doing a good job of containing the epidemic. What was it doing right?

SR: I believe the most important thing India did right at the beginning was to impose a strict lockdown early on, when...

Since the beginning of the crisis, there have been two strategies at work around the world to defeat COVID: Zero COVID and vaccines as part of the mitigation strategy. Instead of pitting them against each other, we can mix them to really...

CP: What brought the Wuhan outbreak to your attention so early on, when most of the world remained unaware of the danger? 

MR: It was no coincidence. At the time, I was deeply immersed in the study of possible threats the Israeli...