Facts -not fear- will stop the pandemic
2 min read The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era.
2 min read The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era.
< 1 min read The ‘Global Health Community’ that previously prioritised diseases such as HIV, TB and the big child killer, malaria, implicitly considers avoidable deaths
6 min read PANDA believes that the people of South Africa will do the right thing if they are empowered with accurate information. This team’s purpose
< 1 min read Likely Consequences of the COVID-19 Lockdown are highlighted by Ivor Cummins and PANDA’s Nick Hudson as they interpret the pandemic data. (24
< 1 min read PANDA’s Nick Hudson on the so-called “second wave” of cases with no commensurate pandemic surge in deaths, as well as Covid’s seasonality.
< 1 min read Professor Alex van den Heever, from Wit’s School of Governance; Nick Hudson, coordinator of Panda; and Mike Schussler, head of econmists.co.za; talk
< 1 min read talkRADIO host Julia Hartley-Brewer interviews PANDA’s Clare Craig about the impact of lockdowns.
10 min read There is a persistent narrative that South Africa’s official COVID-19 death tally is significantly undercounted because reported excess deaths are higher than the
< 1 min read All indicators suggest that lockdown has led to an increase in deaths and that this is what the excess death numbers tell
9 min read The SAMRC report attempts to show that the coronavirus pandemic has led to almost 11,000 fatalities, more than three times the official death