He's gonna' do it! Max is coming up on his anniversary - he has been sleeping in a tent in his backyard for a year now. And to...

One country that does not get talked about a lot in the context of COVID, is Russia. In short Russia is really a good news - bad news...

In the news this week are a number of countries seeing a significant increase in cases in Europe. Last week we talked about eastern...

The land border between the US and Canada has been 'closed' for a year now. Border communities, which thrive on cross-border traffic,...

It has been a while since we talked about 'Immunity Passports' ( Thought of the Day - October 9 - Immunity Passports Revisited ). In the...

We talked about the dire situation in Czechia (Czech Republic) earlier this week ( Thought of the Day - March 8 - Czechia ), however,...

They have hit what all countries have tried to avoid: COVID cases overwhelming support services. In response to the second wave, the...

Globally the number of new COVID daily cases remains fairly flat. The southeast Asian countries, who got serious about eliminating...

With airlines and cruise lines looking to stay in the public eye, with rusty pilots needing recertification ( Thought of the Day -...

Vaccine Contracts: Latin American countries are complaining of unreasonable demands being made by Pfizer. According to Argentina, Pfizer...

Well, here we are, the last day of February. The world has seen a shade under 115 million official cases, 90 million of whom have...

When the first round of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines were being developed and trialed the majority of the world's population had not yet been...

New stories about the "COVID Gong Show", that is the Australian Open tennis tournament, keep rolling in. First, there was the reaction...

The world has had over 110 million official COVID cases. The big story though is how new cases around the world are dropping. ...

Jamaica has had a tough twelve months. Overall they experienced more than a 30% drop in GDP in 2020. Tourist business way down, heck...

Vaccine Approvals (& Politics): It has been a wild two weeks, as more countries negotiate the politics and declare their hands. The...

With the world debating the vaccine-versus-variant race here is what has been happening on the ground. Looking at countries (of over 5M)...

As you know there are only three broad ways to end this pandemic. 1) Stop COVID community infections, 2) Find an extremely effective...

Case numbers continue to fall around the world - the effect of significant restrictions, especially in Europe. And this is now...

No, I am not talking about packaging shortages affecting vaccine supply, I am talking about shipping containers - you know, those big...