President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation. President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again given in to political pressure as he tries in earnest to be the referee between divergent political views and not the leader in the midst of a pandemic. His announcement on Thursday evening that public schools would be shut for the next four weeks…
Share on PinterestAccording to a Boston University researcher and his collaborator, health organizations and the media have not been doing a good job of reporting on COVID-19 research.Writing in JAMA, a doctor at Boston University (BU) School of Public Health, MA, and a medical journalist warn of the dangers of spreading “hurried, incomplete, biased misinformation”…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reintroduced a ban on the sale and distribution of alcohol, as the country approaches the 300 000 mark for cases of Covid-19. Millions of South Africans will be angry with Ramaphosa, who appeared very frustrated as he announced the country would remain on alert Level 3, but with stricter regulation and…
Ramaphosa says SA will go to Level 3 by end of MayAccording to Ramaphosa, we have done well on this score. The lockdown comes at a great cost to our country. According to National Treasury, between three and seven million South Africans could lose their jobs due to business shutting down. The South African Revenue…
Today we revisit some of the topics we’ve covered in the past months. Published: May 24, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week The World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that more countries need to improve their ability to monitor populations for foodborne diseases. Although gradual progress is evident
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the diversion of a Detroit-bound plane to Canada over Ebola concerns on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on May 21. Gounder also discussed how the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has been declared a global health emergency on Fox’s LiveNOW on May 18. Click here
Cantaloupe is almost perfectly designed to make people sick Published: May 22, 2026, 12:06 am I’ve been suing people over cantaloupe for years. I’m not happy about it. But here we are — again. Let me walk you through what three decades of depositions, hospital visits, and funerals have taught me about this fruit. The