Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
Barron’s: How to Make Sure the Market Delivers a COVID-19 Vaccine Amanda Glassman, executive vice president of CGD, CEO of CGD Europe, and senior fellow, and Rachel Silverman, policy fellow at CGD (5/9). Devex: Opinion: We need a feminist response to this pandemic Lina Abirafeh, executive director of the Arab…
AFRICA AP: Cape Town and its province are South Africa’s virus hotspot (Magome, 5/11). Eurasia Review: Dearth Of Medical Resources in Africa For COVID-19 Reminiscent Of Early HIV/AIDS Pandemic (5/10). Financial Times: Mystery deaths in Nigeria provoke fear of unrecorded coronavirus surge (Munshi, 5/12). The Guardian: ‘We depend on God’:…
CBS News: Coronavirus expected to peak in world’s poorest countries in months, U.N. says “A new report published Thursday by the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the ‘peak of coronavirus in the world’s poorest countries is not expected until some point over the next three…
AFRICA AP: African nations seek their own solutions in virus crisis (Petesch et al., 5/11). Bloomberg: How Ebola Helped Africa Prepare for Coronavirus (Bax et al., 5/8). Reuters: Second wave of COVID-19 cases sweeps Senegal’s holy city (Van Der Perre/Prentice, 5/11). Reuters: Zambia seeks IMF funding to help soften impact…
The Hill: Russia, Brazil struggle with coronavirus response “…Brazil, Russia, India, and China — the so-called BRIC nations — have boomed in recent years, fueled by strong commodity prices and nascent technological and manufacturing sectors that have given them a global edge. Since the turn of the century, millions of…
Reuters: Australia annoyed as U.S. pushes Wuhan lab COVID-19 theory “Australian officials are frustrated that their push for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus is being undermined by the White House, which has sought to link the outbreak to a Chinese lab, government, diplomatic and intelligence sources told…
AFRICA Devex: The double burden of coronavirus and Ebola in eastern DRC (Jerving/Tsongo, 5/8). Global Health NOW: Africa’s Decision-Makers Get a Data Boost (Myers, 5/7). Reuters: Africa disease centre rejects Tanzania’s allegation that its coronavirus tests faulty (Paravicini et al., 5/7). ASIA The Lancet: New Zealand eliminates COVID-19 (Cousins, 5/9).…
CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Improving Detection and Response to Respiratory Events — Kenya, April 2016-April 2020 Osatohamwen I. Idubor, epidemic intelligence service officer at the CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Division of Bacterial Diseases, and colleagues (5/8). CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Notes from…
Bloomberg: Hackers Target WHO by Posing as Think Tank, Broadcaster (Gallagher, 5/7). The BMJ: Covid-19: Health needs of sex workers are being sidelined, warn agencies (Howard, 5/7). CNN: These are the ’10 plain truths’ about the coronavirus pandemic, according to former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden (Kim/Watts, 5/6). Devex: Q&A:…
AP: U.N. appeals for $6.7 billion to fight virus in poor countries “The United Nations announced Thursday it is increasing its appeal to fight the coronavirus pandemic in fragile and vulnerable countries from $2 billion to $6.7 billion. … Since the original appeal on March 25, the United Nations said…