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HHS: Fact Sheet: Explaining Operation Warp Speed This fact sheet provides an overview of Operation Warp Speed, an HHS-wide effort that “aims to deliver 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution…
AFRICA The Guardian: Why coronavirus has placed millions more girls at risk of FGM (Hodal, 6/16). New York Times: Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa (Maclean, 5/16). Reuters: Nigerian doctors strike for better benefits during coronavirus crisis (Sotunde et al., 6/15). Scientific American: African Countries Scramble to Ramp up Testing for COVID-19…
The Conversation: Vaccinations skipped during COVID-19 shutdown may lead to outbreaks of other diseases Derek Cameron, PhD Candidate in history at the University of Saskatchewan (6/14). Devex: Opinion: A complex WASH sector could hamper Ghana’s fight against COVID-19 Vida Duti, country director of IRC Ghana (6/12). The Hill: We cannot…
New York Times: The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals “One study promised that popular blood-pressure drugs were safe for people infected with the coronavirus. Another paper warned that anti-malaria drugs endorsed by President Trump actually were dangerous to these patients. The studies, published in the New England Journal…
Devex: CEPI CEO: Scarcity, ‘vaccine nationalism’ biggest barriers for COVID-19 vaccine access “Global politics and vaccine scarcity are the biggest challenges to ensuring that a future COVID-19 vaccine will be available in the world’s poorest countries, according to Richard Hatchett, CEO at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. ‘Managing the…
Reuters: How a vaccine made of mosquito spit could help stop the next epidemic “…Building on the work of colleagues and other scientists, [Jessica] Manning, a clinical researcher for the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, believed she could use pieces of mosquito saliva protein to build a…
Financial Times: E.U. to spend billions to secure coronavirus vaccine “Brussels plans to pump billions of euros into advance purchase deals with pharmaceutical companies for potential coronavirus vaccines, in a sign of intensifying rich country efforts to secure supplies of any future treatment. The E.U. proposes using a ‘large majority’…
AFRICA AP: Congo doctor quits COVID-19 task force, notes testing delays (Maliro/Larson, 6/11). National Geographic: Why South Africa’s coronavirus outbreak could be a ‘catalyst for transformation’ (Nordling, 6/11). New Humanitarian: Child marriage worries rise amid coronavirus lockdown in Cameroon (Fonyuy, 6/11). NPR: Risks Of Home Birth Loom For Women in…
Bloomberg: Egypt Should Deal With the Pandemic’s Social Impact Amr Adly, assistant professor at the American University in Cairo (6/11). Devex: Opinion: COVID-19 — it’s time to take cash to the next level Caroline Holt, Global Cash lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (6/11).…
Barron’s: We Ran the CDC. Here’s How to Talk to the Public in a Health Crisis Jeffrey P. Koplan, vice president for global health at Emory University, and Richard E. Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (6/11). The Conversation: Scientists around the world are already fighting…