Author: Alkebu-Lan

May 10, 2020 Alkebu-Lan

Back in February it was reported that: “Black women scared to report domestic abuse in case Home Office deports them” (1) since then, events have moved in an unexpected trajectory.  On March 11th the World Health Organisation declared the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) a global pandemic. (2) This was followed by…

May 4, 2020 Alkebu-Lan

According to an April 8th report in the two hundred-year-old peer-reviewed general medical journal, The Lancet, “Lockdowns can’t end until Covid-19 vaccine found”: (1) “Although the aggressive countermeasures appear to have reduced the number of reported cases, the absence of herd immunity against COVID-19 suggests that counts could easily resurge…

April 20, 2020 Alkebu-Lan

The UK government has announced that it is launching an official inquiry to investigate “why people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds appear to be disproportionately affected by coronavirus.”  This follows reports that that “35% of patients in intensive care units were black or from another ethnic minority, despite people…