The Hill: COVID-19 vaccines must go to rich and poor countries, warns advocate “The world will not return to normal until a vaccine against the coronavirus is distributed widely and not just to developed nations, one of the leading vaccine experts said in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday. Seth Berkley, who…

Bloomberg: U.K. Orders 90 Million Vaccine Doses from Pfizer, Valneva (Mulier, 7/20). Bloomberg: Most of the World May Face Covid Without a Vaccine (Paton, 7/18). Chicago Tribune: How will the first COVID-19 vaccine affect women? ‘This leaves a big question mark’ (Bowen, 7/19). CNN: Why North Korea says it’s joining…

The Conversation: How countries get away with hoarding drugs in a pandemic Mark Eccleston-Turner, lecturer of law at Keele University (7/6). Devex: The debate around intellectual property rights and the COVID-19 vaccine Arnab Acharya, independent scholar (7/6). Devex: Depression, anxiety, insomnia — health workers and the side effects of COVID-19…

CBC News: Canada loses its bid for seat on U.N. Security Council (Harris, 6/17). CIDRAP News: High antibiotic prescribing rates found in lower-resource nations (Dall, 6/17). Devex: Can business step up on SDGs post COVID-19? (Saldinger, 6/17). Devex: How engagement with religious groups can help fight COVID-19 (Byatnal, 6/17). Devex:…

The Atlantic: Public-Health Experts Are Not Hypocrites Julia Marcus, epidemiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School, and Gregg Gonsalves, epidemiologist and professor at the Yale School of Public Health (6/11). The Guardian: ‘The data was there — so why did it take coronavirus to wake us up to racial health…

Financial Times: Poorer countries join WHO call for virus patents to be shared “Two dozen low-income countries have joined a World Health Organization push for the sharing of patents for coronavirus drugs and vaccines, but they lack support from powerful governments and large pharmaceutical groups. The WHO on Friday unveiled an…

STAT: Pharma leaders shoot down WHO voluntary pool for patent rights on Covid-19 products “The heads of some of the world’s largest drug makers expressed a mix of confusion and resistance to a World Health Organization voluntary pool to collect patent rights, regulatory test data, and other information that could…

Al Jazeera: There are coronavirus solutions for resource-poor countries, too Fawzia Rasheed, program and policy analyst, board member of BRAC, and senior adviser to the director of health of the Aga Khan Development Network; Mushtaque Chowdhury, professor of population and family health at Columbia University and founding Dean of the BRAC…

Devex: Governments strike a deal on COVID-19 review, equal treatment access “Countries backed equal access to treatment and an independent review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday, as the annual meeting of the World Health Organization ended in broad consensus after weeks of negotiations. States agreed on…

U.S. Department of State: The United States Condemns Attempts by PRC-Affiliated Actors to Steal American COVID-19 Research In this press statement, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “condemns attempts by cyber actors and non-traditional collectors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to steal U.S. intellectual property and data…