
As wealthy nations roll out millions of COVID-19 vaccines and are beginning to reap the benefits, a devastating inverse trend in South America is sending cases soaring, PAHO chief
As wealthy nations roll out millions of COVID-19 vaccines and are beginning to reap the benefits, a devastating inverse trend in South America is sending cases soaring, PAHO chief
Vaccines are not just tools for disease prevention, they’re also a means for countries to project soft power in lower-income countries,
Good news on reinfection front: US NIH researchers found that people with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies showed “substantial” immunity to the virus at least for a few months,
Behind each COVID-19 death is an unfathomable ordeal that is largely witnessed only by physicians and nurses. The struggle for air is like breathing through a very narrow straw… indefinitely. Lungs feel “full of bees.”
Coronavirus cases are surging in Iraq amid widespread shirking of restrictions like mask-wearing and doubt about whether the pandemic is real. New daily cases, which were under 600 a month ago, reached 3,896 on last week. Half of them involve the variant discovered in the…
For months, Africa’s intelligence and law enforcement circles have worried that counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines might flow through the continent’s free-trade ports, which are key economic drivers but also hubs for illicit imports, according to a deep-dive
Peru’s problem in the global scramble for vaccines: It’s too rich for free COVAX doses but too poor to deploy the kind of programs its wealthier neighbors are rolling out.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine grabbed headlines this week after a preprint
About 70-85% of a population must become immune to COVID-19 to reach herd immunity, and the math, at least in the US, isn’t looking good.