Virtual Event: The pandemic’s toll on mental health
Editor’s note: A recording of the event is embedded below. Isolation. Job loss. Anxiety about getting sick. For all the disease and death that the pandemic has caused, it is …
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Dozens of institutional investors push for ‘fair and equitable’ Covid-19 response
Nearly 150 institutional investors that oversee combined assets worth more than $14 trillion have issued a joint call for a “fair and equitable” global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and …
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New pledges boost COVAX, but critics say more is needed to ensure global vaccine access
After months of uncertainty and frustration, a World Health Organization program designed to ensure access to Covid-19 vaccines in dozens of low-income countries late last week received a spate of …
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Virtual Event: Facing the crisis of drug-resistant germs
Editor’s note: The livestream of this event is posted below. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown what happens when we let our guard down against infectious disease, despite years of increasingly …
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‘What other variants might be out there?’ An expert on viral evolution on what’s happening with coronavirus mutations
“Variants” is the latest term to leap from the infectious disease lexicon to the general public as a result of the coronavirus, as the effects of mutations on transmission and …
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Opinion: Welcome back to the global health stage, America. You have a lot of work to do
The last four years have seen a devastating erosion of American leadership on global health. From severely restricting access to reproductive choice for women around the world with an expanded …
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Opinion: Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases
With Covid-19 vaccines beginning to be distributed in the United States and other countries, and with health care professionals more knowledgeable about the virus, there’s hope we’ll be able to …
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3 global health issues to watch in 2021
In December 2018, when I set out to write about the global health issues the world should watch for in 2019, I noted it had been a while since the …
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Opinion: Emergency use authorization of Covid-19 vaccines could hinder global access to them
Within the span of 10 days, regulators in the United Kingdom and the United States granted emergency use authorization for the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech. This vaccine, …
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