The Conversation: A new global health pattern: longer life for the poor, with more ailments Justine Ina Davies, professor of global health at the Institute for Applied Research, and Maria Odland, research fellow for global health, both at the University of Birmingham (5/21). New York Times: Bill Gates Is the…

Devex: COVID-19 demands speed, long-term thinking from private foundations “The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing many philanthropic foundations to give more money more quickly, with fewer strings attached to support responses, according to Kathleen Enright, CEO at the nonprofit Council on Foundations. The sudden increase in funding for COVID-19 could become…

Al Jazeera: Trump sidelines CDC in push to reopen the U.S. economy (Roberts, 5/20). Devex: First came the coronavirus. And then the cyclone hit (Cornish, 5/21). Devex: Q&A: Gates Foundation adopts ‘yes, and’ strategy in response to COVID-19 (Lieberman, 5/21). The Economist: The risk of severe covid-19 is not uniform…

CNBC: Coronavirus patients discharged from hospitals report ‘long struggle,’ some relapse, WHO says (Feuer, 5/11). Devex: Travel restrictions, funding gaps a bigger problem than PPE, humanitarian leaders say (Igoe, 5/12). Financial Times: FTfm: Responsible Investing (Multiple authors, 5/11). Fox News: Top scientist who battled COVID-19 says ‘we will never ……

POLITICO: Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next “You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, but warnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades. … It makes you wonder: What else are we missing? What other catastrophes are coming that we aren’t planning…

POLITICO: The Gates aren’t pinning their coronavirus hopes on the U.S. “…The Gates Foundation is working closely with the European Commission on a pledging conference on Monday intended to generate €7.5 billion in financing for tests, medicines, and vaccines against the virus. In an interview with POLITICO, Melinda Gates said…

AP: Heart disease main underlying condition in COVID-19 deaths (Selsky, 4/29). Democracy Now!: WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We’re at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork (Goodman, 4/30). Devex: Kenya’s blood shortage goes from bad to worse (Jerving, 5/1). Devex: How COVID-19 is impacting…

The Atlantic: You Should Politicize the Coronavirus Helen Lewis, staff writer at the Atlantic and author (5/1). The Atlantic: The Pandemic Will Make America Stronger Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute (5/1). Bloomberg: Maybe the Pandemic Will Never End Narayana Kocherlakota, professor of…

Devex: U.K. pledges £1.65B to Gavi for the next 5 years “The United Kingdom has pledged to donate the equivalent of £330 million ($410 million) a year to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for the next five years. The government said it will be the largest supporter of Gavi, which works…

The Guardian: U.S. stays away as world leaders agree action on Covid-19 vaccine “Global leaders have pledged to accelerate cooperation on a coronavirus vaccine and to share research, treatment and medicines across the globe. But the United States did not take part in the World Health Organization initiative, in a…