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A crush of people mobbed a Manila site trying to get the Pfizer vaccine earlier this week.

Already the epicenter of the pandemic, India’s COVID-19 response has now been intercepted by a cyclone,

If you felt no side effects from your Covid vaccine, should you worry?  No. Feeling terrible after a vaccine isn’t proof of a healthy immune response, according to University of Massachusetts professor Robert Finberg.   Immune systems have 2 lines of defense against…

The most vaccinated nation on earth is suffering a worrisome surge in COVID-19 cases, The

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will run to keep his job for another 5-year term, according to an agency insider.   The reelection bid would essentially be a referendum on the agency’s COVID-19 response, which has put the agency under a microscope.

Barring action from world leaders, the horror engulfing India could soon be mirrored in many South American, Asian, and African countries,

The pandemic has made ‘social determinants of health’ a buzzy phrase and brought fresh grant money to study the century-old concept.   But thus far, research on the topic hasn’t translated to tangible solutions, which are politically fraught and incredibly complex.

Fewer than 2,000 South Koreans have

India clocked a record-breaking 314,835 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours,

Vaccine passports? Nope, says a WHO panel.