Cracks in the half-full glass
Italy’s glass-half-full status in managing the COVID assault is beginning to spring notable leaks. And unlike Britain, the country has [...]
Italy’s two COVID faces
Italy continues to represent something of a paradox when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which it has handled [...]
Giovanni’s head (or, the vaccine game)
It’s official. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has announced his government will draft legislation making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for every [...]
Booing England, hailing Italy
With typically wry humor, the English came up with a saying to comfort married women that had absolutely no interest [...]
No sweetness in sight
The aggressive nature of COVID-19’s so-called Delta variant — it seems to infect swiftly and at will — has caused [...]
On Sinovac, Delta, and gaps
Scores of countries, especially in the developing world, have based their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns on China's Sinovac and SinoPharm. I've [...]
Italy’s on time
Successfully persuading a population that its best interests are best served by getting a vaccine to stop the spread of [...]
No final word on masks
It is remarkable, and not at all cheering, that a year into the COVID-19 pandemic there is no definitive word [...]
Pull the plug on AstraZeneca
There's no other way to put it: AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine is in deep trouble. While other massively circulated vaccines, including [...]
On rules and AstraZeneca
Now that millions of us have been fully vaccinated, we're chomping at the bit to get back to a normal [...]
A season for mutants
Many people are asking the same question about the growing number of corona virus variants: Why now? What caused the [...]