Early in September this year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) officially classified the Ampatuan massacre as “resolved,” after a Quezon City regional trial court found 28 accused guilty of murder in what has been described as “the worst attack on journalists and the worst election-related violent incident in Philippine history.” The attack led to the gruesome killing of 58 persons, including 32 journalists, whose mass graves were later found on a
Whenever I meet with my medical colleagues—virtually, anyway—the No. 1 worry I hear is that the coming Christmas season may also be the second coming of COVID-19, and that we may see an escalation of the pandemic beyond what we have faced. So far, we agree, we haven’t been in the upper tier of countries where the death toll has been catastrophic, but the holidays with all the merrymaking, gathering, and videoke singing can change all that. Their anxieties are warranted. By now, the global experience indicates that holidays are superspreader events in themselves—as most recently demonstrated by the Canadian Thanksgiving
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