In this issue of CMI, Memish et al. [1] show that circulation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV) in Saudi Arabia is much lower than was feared, announced, or predicted. One year after the discovery of this novel coronavirus, the Saudi Arabian ...

National audience; The aim is to show how forgetting the disasters of the past contributes to increasing exposure to risks in our societies. It first addresses the question of historical materials and methods and emphasizes the role of expert speech and modeling, as alm...

International audience; Purpose of Review We reviewed the occurrence of outbreaks at past Olympics and discuss the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Tokyo Games. Recent Findings Evidence for large respiratory tract infection outbreaks at past Olympics is scant. Nev...

ABSTRACTBackgroundThe weekend effect has been extensively observed for different diseases and countries and recognized as a fact but without obvious causes.ObjectivesIn this paper we first aimed at investigating the existence of a periodicity in the death count due to C...

Abstract This article analyzes the audio diaries of a Tibetan physician, originally from Amdo (Qinghai Province, China), now living in New York City. Dr. Kunchog Tseten describes his experiences during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, in spring and summer 2020, ...

On 17 March 2020, in response to the rising number of cases of COVID 19 threatening to overwhelm its healthcare system, the French government under Emmanuel Macron ordered France into one of the mo...

In the Economic Impact Payment letter to American citizens in Spring 2020, President Donald Trump wrote that “we wage total war on this invisible enemy.” Trump likely did not intend to explicitly link this to the rich theory about “total war” in military history, but th...

Article paru dans Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology; International audience; A recommendation – based on reviews by Luca Ferretti and two anonymous reviewers – of the article: Danesh, G., Elie, B., Michalakis, Y., Sofonea, M. T., Bal, A., Behillil, S., Destras, G.,...

International audience; In the context of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, all mass gathering (MG) events have been cancelled. The Grand Magal took place on October 6, 2020, in Touba, Senegal, which was the only MG event organized in 2020. This Muslim p...