KFF: What Do We Know About Children and Coronavirus Transmission? As schools prepare for fall, this brief examines what’s known about children and COVID-19, including the risk the virus poses to children and the risk of children becoming infected and transmitting to others, and the experiences of other countries that…

The Lancet: The COVID-19 infodemic Editorial Board (7/17). New York Times: Opening Schools Won’t Be Easy, but Here’s How to Do It Safely Ezekiel J. Emanuel, vice provost of global initiatives and professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues (7/29). PLOS Neglected Tropical…

AEI: The fragile vaccine plan to save the world James C. Capretta, resident fellow and Milton Friedman chair at AEI (7/29). BMJ Opinion: Fiona M. Watt: Covid-19 — a new disease has forced a re-think of how we fund medical research Fiona M. Watt, executive chair at the Medical Research…

UNAIDS: UNAIDS is hopeful that a new long-acting HIV prevention option will soon become available for women in sub-Saharan Africa (7/28). UNICEF: A third of the world’s children poisoned by lead, new groundbreaking analysis says (7/29). Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: At the Intersection of…

The Guardian: Measles vaccination disruptions due to coronavirus put 80 million children at risk “Tens of millions of children around the world have been denied life-saving vaccines against measles in both rich and poor countries due to Covid-19 disruptions, with fears of further outbreaks this year. Since March, routine childhood…

Bloomberg: New Coronavirus Turns Out to Be Decades Old — in Bats (Wilson, 7/28). Devex: Watch: Habitat’s Jonathan Reckford on COVID-19 and global housing (Kumar, 7/29). Devex: USAID local contractors for women and children’s health (Wolf, 7/29). New York Times: Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online (Frenkel/Alba,…

Devex: How to reach children with disabilities during school closures Guy le Fanu, global technical lead for education at Sightsavers (7/28). Newsweek: Global Health Security Needs New Thinking David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former U.K. Foreign Secretary, and Jonas Gahr Store, leader of the Norwegian Labour…

KFF: What Do We Know About Children and Coronavirus Transmission? As schools prepare for fall, this brief examines what’s known about children and COVID-19, including the risk the virus poses to children and the risk of children becoming infected and transmitting to others, and the experiences of other countries that…

USAID/Medium: The Nutrition Crisis Hidden Within the Pandemic Trey Hicks, associate administrator for relief, resilience, and response at USAID, Alma Golden, assistant administrator for global health at USAID, and Shawn Baker, chief nutritionist at USAID, discuss COVID-19’s impact on global nutrition and highlight USAID’s current and ongoing actions to prevent…

AP: Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month “…All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid. Virus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000…